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Armed Forces - From: 1990 To: 1990
This page lists 2 cases, and was prepared on 03 April 2018.
In re JS (A Minor) (Wardship: Boy Soldier) [1990] Fam 182
1990
Hollis J
Children, Armed Forces
The Court considered the procedures for when a 17 year old a boy soldier who had gone absent without leave and returned home to his parents. He had been due to go to Iraq. His mother sought an order for wardship. Held: The Court struck out wardship proceedings. It could not restrain the action.
Hollis J said: "It would obviously, I think, be inappropriate and, I consider, contrary to policy to continue the wardship on the facts of this case, however sympathetic one might be towards the ward, and indeed his parents . .
From what I have gleaned from the facts of this case, it may be in neither the minor's best interest nor in the interests of the public, that he remain a member of the Army, but that is not a matter for me to decide."
1 Citers
Director of Public Prosecutions v Hutchinson; Director of Public Prosecutions v Smith; HL 12-Jul-1990 - [1990] 2 AC 783; Times, 13 July 1990; [1988] UKHL 11