The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2025] Fam 211
Court of Appeal
J
v
Bath and North East Somerset Council
[2025] EWCA Civ 478
2025 Feb 5; April 29
Sir Andrew McFarlane P, King, Singh LJJ
Children— Child in care— Deprivation of liberty— Child placed in specialist children’s home under care order— Child subject to restrictions on liberty amounting to confinement— Whether order authorising deprivation of child’s liberty required— Whether local authority able to consent to child’s confinement in exercise of parental responsibility—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), ss 31, 33(3)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5