On making a secure accommodation order, the welfare of the child is a relevant but not the paramount consideration. The Court referred to the responsibility of reaching ‘so serious and Draconian a decision as the restriction upon the liberty of the child’.
Citations:
Times 15-Nov-1994, [1995] 1 FLR 418
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – In re K (A Child) FD 16-May-2011
The court was asked whether K, a 13-year-old girl, should attend the hearing of an application by her local authority to keep her in secure accommodation for three months. She wanted to be at the hearing, but the local authority opposed her . .
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Children
Updated: 28 April 2022; Ref: scu.82022