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Adoption - From: 1999 To: 1999
This page lists 10 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
S v M 1999 SC 388
1999
Scotland, Adoption
1 Citers
In re D (Simultaneous applications for care order and freeing order) [1999] 2 FLR 49
1999
Thorpe LJ
Children, Adoption
The judge considering two applications for a care order and an adoption order had confused the proper order of issues to be considered, and that error contaminated his decision. The two should be dealt with in sequence.
1 Citers
In Re R (A Minor) (Inter-Country Adoptions: Practice) Times, 20 January 1999; Gazette, 10 February 1999
20 Jan 1999
FD
Adoption
The court set down procedures to be followed in inter-country adoptions which were intended to remove the considerable deal and temptation to suppress the truth currently characterising such proceedings. The present system created injustice for the child.
Appeal for L J v In Petition of Aberdeen City Council for an Order Declaring A Child Free for Adoption [1999] ScotCS 45
11 Feb 1999
SCS
Lord Justice Clerk
Scotland, Adoption
[ Bailii ] - [ ScotC ]
In Re B (A Minor) (Adoption Order: Nationality); HL 11-Mar-1999 - Times, 15 March 1999; Gazette, 08 April 1999; [1999] 2 WLR 714; [1999] UKHL 11; [1999] 2 All ER 576
In Re J (A Minor) (Adoption: Appointment of Guardian ad Litem); CA 19-Mar-1999 - Times, 19 March 1999
S Petitioner Times, 23 March 1999
23 Mar 1999
IHCS
Adoption
Where a mother turned up after a child was freed for adoption in her absence, the case should be re-opened and proceed as normal, and no great weight should be given to questioning she could previously have been found.
Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 12
Re J (Child) [1999] EWCA Civ 1951
23 Jul 1999
CA
Adoption
Challenge to freeing order.
[ Bailii ]
In Re M (Minors) (Adoption: Disclosure) Times, 29 July 1999
29 Jul 1999
FD
Adoption
Where a local authority was acting as an adoption agency, it should provide in its report to the adoption panel, the views of the guardian ad litem where these were known to them. If the guardian had not come to a conclusion, that fact should be stated since it was a negative fact of direct relevance.
T R (Application By Grampian Regional Council) [1999] ScotCS 192
13 Aug 1999
SCS
Scotland, Adoption
Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 8
[ Bailii ]
