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Parental responsibility
Parental responsibility
This is not a case in which the birth father has acquired parental responsibility; the mother not being in a position to identify the father and therefore he has had no chance to acquire it. It follows that he does not have the benefit of automatic notification, party status or the right to give or withhold consent to adoption.
- Heading
- Ms Kate Grange KC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court
- Background
- The mother’s evidence
- The positions of the parties
- Legal principles to be applied
- Application
- Parental responsibility
- Article 8 rights
- The substance of the relationships
- The likelihood of a family placement being a realistic alternative to adoption
- The physical, psychological or social impact on the mother or on others of notification being given
- The availability and durability of the confidential information
- The impact of delay
- Conclusions