QQ v XX

Subject Matter

ADOPTION — Arrangements for adoption — Foreign parties — Children’s guardian appointed for foreign national child in adoption proceedings — Whether appointment giving rise to duty to inform foreign consulate — Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 5 — FPR r 16.3(1) — Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1973) (Cmnd 5219), art 37(b)

[2022] EWHC 2910 (Fam); [2023] Fam 241; [2023] 3 WLR 475; [2023] WLR(D) 129, Fam D