(Admissibility) The court was asked whether the mother’s Article 8 rights had been breached by a local authority who had applied to free her child for adoption, the court once again stated that ‘the best interests of the child is always of crucial importance’.
Citations:
34745/97, [2000] ECHR 698, 2000 Fam LR 102, [2000] 1 FLR 958, [2000] Fam Law 538, [2000] 2 FCR 560
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Statutes:
European Convention on Human Rights 8
Jurisdiction:
Human Rights
Cited by:
Cited – Payne v Payne; P v P CA 13-Feb-2001
No presumption for Mother on Relocation
The mother applied for leave to return to New Zealand taking with the parties’ daughter aged four. The father opposed the move, saying that allowing the move would infringe his and the child’s right to family life. He had been refused residence.
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Human Rights, Children
Updated: 12 July 2022; Ref: scu.263016