In re J (A Child) (Adopted Child: Contact)

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Orders with respect to children — Contact order — Natural parents seeking provision of photograph annually of adopted child — Judge overriding objections from adoptive parents and local authority and making order in natural parents’ favour — Whether order appropriate — Whether welfare of child paramount consideration — Children Act 1989, s 1 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8 — Adoption and Children Act 2002, ss 46(2), 67

[2010] EWCA Civ 581; [2011] Fam 31; [2010] 3 WLR 1746; [2010] PTSR 1996; [2011] 1 FLR 272, CA