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No presumption in favour of birth family where child placed for adoption (Court of Appeal)
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No presumption in favour of birth family where child placed for adoption (Court of Appeal)
In Re W (A Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 793, the court considered how the "nothing else will do" test should be applied to circumstances where the child has been placed with prospective adopters for a significant amount of time and birth relatives (with no existing relationship to the child) put themselves forward as carers late in the day.
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Published on 03-Aug-2016
Resource Type Legal update: case report
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