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Adoption - From: 1970 To: 1979
This page lists 8 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
In Re F (R) (An Infant) [1970] 1 QB 385
1970
Adoption
An adoption order was set aside for an irregularity.
1 Citers
In re W (An Infant) [1971] AC 682
1971
HL
Lord Hailsham LC
Adoption
The court considered the reasonability of parental disagreement in applications for adoption: "Two reasonable parents can perfectly reasonably come to opposite conclusions on the same set of facts without forfeiting their title to be regarded as reasonable. The question in any given case is whether a parental veto comes within the band of possible reasonable decisions and not whether it is right or mistaken. Not every reasonable exercise of judgment is right, and not every mistaken exercise of judgment is unreasonable. There is a band of decisions within which no court should seek to replace the individual's judgment with his own." and ". . the test is reasonableness and not anything else. It is not culpability. It is not indifference. It is not failure to discharge parental duties. It is reasonableness, and reasonableness in the context of the totality of the circumstances. But, although welfare per se is not the test, the fact that a reasonable parent does pay regard to the welfare of his child must enter into the question of reasonableness as a relevant factor. It is relevant in all cases if and to the extent that a reasonable parent would take it into account. It is decisive in those cases where a reasonable parent must so regard it."
1 Citers
Re RA (Minors) (1974) Fam Law 182
1974
Adoption
An adoption order was set aside for a procedural irregularity.
1 Citers
Re F (Infants) (Adoption Order: Validity) [1977] Fam 165
1977
Adoption
In re D (An Infant) (Adoption: Parent's Consent); HL 1977 - [1977] AC 602
Re F [1977] Fam 165
1977
Adoption
1 Citers
X and Y v United Kingdom; ECHR 1978 - (1978) 12 DR 32; [1977] ECHR 3
Marckx v Belgium; ECHR 13-Jun-1979 - 6833/74; (1979) 2 EHRR 330; [1979] ECHR 2