C v XYZ County Council

Subject Matter

ADOPTION — Adoption order — Arrangements for adoption — Unmarried mother deciding to place child for adoption — Mother wishing to keep child's birth secret from father and her own family — Whether court and adoption agency under duty to investigate extended family and father as potential carers — Whether order preventing disclosure of child's birth infringing family's and father's Convention rights — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Adoption and Children Act 2002, s 1

[2007] EWCA Civ 1206; [2008] Fam 54; [2008] 3 WLR 445; [2008] 1 FLR 1294, CA