The Weekly Law Reports
[2016] 1 WLR 1160
Family Division
*In re AB (A Child) (Deprivation of Liberty: Consent)
[2015] EWHC 3125 (Fam)
2015 July 28
Keehan J
Children— Child in care— Deprivation of liberty— Child placed in residential children’s home under interim care order— Whether living arrangements amounting to deprivation of liberty— Whether parents or local authority entitled to consent to deprivation of liberty— Whether court to authorise deprivation of liberty under inherent jurisdiction— Observations on deprivation of liberty cases involving children in need or looked after children—
Children Act 1989 (c 41) (as amended by Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38), s 139, Sch 3, para 63(a)), ss 20, 25, 33(3), 100(4)[1]
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5[2]