In re G (A Child) (Adoption: Placement outside Jurisdiction)

Subject Matter

ADOPTION — Adoption order — Arrangements for adoption — Applicants seeking parental responsibility order to enable adoption of child abroad — Provision requiring child's home to be with applicants for ten weeks prior to application — Whether satisfied where one applicant present only for three weeks during ten-week period — Requirement for applicants to obtain confirmation from “foreign authority” that child allowed to enter and reside in foreign state — Whether “foreign authority” governmental body or equivalent of adoption agency — Whether power to grant order despite applicants' failure to obtain confirmation — Whether confirmation required to be in absolute, unconditional or unqualified terms — Whether confirmation requirement satisfied — Whether order to be granted — Adoption and Children Act 2002, s 84 — Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005, reg 10(b)(iv)

[2008] EWCA Civ 105; [2008] Fam 97; [2008] 3 WLR 853; [2008] 1 FLR 1484; [2008] 1 FLR 1497; [2009] 1 FCR 210, CA