The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 4 WLR 80
Family Division
AX and another v SX and others
[2021] EWHC 1121 (Fam)
2021 March 9, 11, 12; April 23
Theis J
Adoption— Adoption order— Revocation— Application by two children to revoke adoption order in circumstances where adoption placement broken down and children returning to live with birth mother— Adoptive parents acknowledging breakdown of placement and consenting to application— Whether inherent jurisdiction of High Court to revoke adoption order limited to specific categories of cases— Whether welfare considerations relevant to discretion to revoke adoption order under inherent jurisdiction— Whether order to be revoked—
Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c 38), ss 1, 55