The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 2 WLR 655
Court of Appeal
In re
A
[2023] EWCA Civ 689
2023 March 29, 30; June 16
Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Moylan, Dingemans LJJ
Children— Parental responsibility— Termination— Statute empowering courts to terminate parental responsibility of father if neither married to nor in civil partnership with mother at time of child’s birth— Whether statute discriminating against married mothers in enjoyment of Convention rights— Whether discrimination justified—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 4
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 4, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 14
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