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[2021] WLR(D) 209
Court of Appeal
In re M (Special Guardianship Order: Leave to Apply to Discharge)
[2021] EWCA Civ 442
Peter Jackson, Baker, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
2021 Mar 4; 26
Children— Care proceedings— Special guardianship orders— Local authority taking care proceedings because mental ill mother unable to adequately care for child— Unopposed special guardianship order made in favour of maternal grandparents— Mother subsequently seeking leave to discharge special guardianship order and applying for contact order— Judge accepting grandparents’ accounts to summarily dismiss application for leave and for contact order— Whether judge applying correct test for leave to vary and for contact order—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 14D (as inserted by Children and Adoption Act 2002 (c 38), s 115(1))