Adoption - 1999

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This page lists 10 cases, and was prepared on 15 November 2008.

S -v- M 1999 SC 388
1999	Scotland, Adoption	Casemap 1 Citers

In re D (Simultaneous applications for care order and freeing order) [1999] 2 FLR 49
1999 Thorpe LJ	Children, Adoption	Casemap 1 Citers
	The judge considering two applications for a care order and an adoption order had confused the proper order of issues to be considered, and that error contaminated his decision. The two should be dealt with in sequence.

In Re R (A Minor) (Inter-Country Adoptions: Practice)
20 Jan 1999 FD	Adoption
	The court set down procedures to be followed in inter-country adoptions which were intended to remove the considerable deal and temptation to suppress the truth currently characterising such proceedings. The present system created injustice for the child.

Appeal for L J -v- In Petition of Aberdeen City Council for an Order Declaring A Child Free for Adoption [1999] ScotCS 45
11 Feb 1999 SCS Lord Justice Clerk	Scotland, Adoption
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In Re B (A Minor) (Adoption Order: Nationality) [1999] UKHL 11; [1999] 2 All ER 576; [1999] 2 WLR 714
11 Mar 1999 HL	Adoption
	When considering adoption of a child the whole range of benefits flowing from the adoption including the benefits of British nationality were to be allowed for, but adoption could properly be refused where the intention was to benefit an adult.
	Statute References omitted
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In Re J (A Minor) (Adoption: Appointment of Guardian ad Litem)
19 Mar 1999 CA	Children, Adoption
	In contested adoption proceedings the choice of guardian ad litem was entirely a matter for the judge. A guardian with good and long standing knowledge of the child would not be set aside for allegations of bias rejected by the judge.

S Petitioner
23 Mar 1999 IHCS	Adoption
	Where a mother turned up after a child was freed for adoption in her absence, the case should be re-opened and proceed as normal, and no great weight should be given to questioning she could previously have been found.
	Statute References omitted

Re J (Child) [1999] EWCA Civ 1951
23 Jul 1999 CA	Adoption
	Challenge to freeing order.
	Link[s] omitted

In Re M (Minors) (Adoption: Disclosure)
29 Jul 1999 FD	Adoption
	Where a local authority was acting as an adoption agency, it should provide in its report to the adoption panel, the views of the guardian ad litem where these were known to them. If the guardian had not come to a conclusion, that fact should be stated since it was a negative fact of direct relevance.

T R (Application By Grampian Regional Council) [1999] ScotCS 192
13 Aug 1999 SCS	Scotland, Adoption
	Statute References omitted
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