Adoption - 1985- 1989

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This page lists 2 cases, and was prepared on 26 February 2010.

In re H (a Minor) [1986] Fam 121
1986	Children, Adoption	1 Citers

Re C (A Minor) (Adoption Order: Conditions) [1988] 2 FLR 159
1988 HL Lord Ackner	Adoption	Casemap 1 Citers
	The House considered the question of conditions to be applied to any continued contact with a child after adoption. Lord Ackner: 'The cases rightly stress that in normal circumstances it is desirable that there should be a complete break, but that each case has to be considered on its own particular facts. No doubt the Court will not, except in the most exceptional case, impose terms or conditions as to access to members of the child's natural family to which the adopting parents do not agree. To do so would be to create a potentially frictional situation which would be hardly likely to safeguard or promote the welfare of the child. Where no agreement is forthcoming the court will, with very rare exceptions, have to choose between making an adoption order without terms or conditions as to access, or to refuse to make such an order and seek to safeguard access through some other machinery, such as wardship. To do otherwise would be merely inviting future and almost immediate litigation.'