Introduction
1.This is an application for the adoption of a young person, K, who is now aged 18. The application is made by close relatives who have brought him up as their own son since he was four years old.
- The Hon Mrs Justice Judd :
- Introduction
- Background
- The Statutory and Regulatory Framework
- The status of the birth mother
- [1999] 2 FLR 807
- [2000] 2 FLR 431
- Re AGN
- [1999] 2 FLR 418
- [2019] UKPC 40
- [2014] EWHC 1128
- [2021] EWCA Civ 512,
- [2020] EWCA Civ 41,
- Non-compliance with s44(3) Adoption and Children Act 2002
- [2015] EWHC 2080 (Fam).
- Decision