The local authority had succeeded in its application for a freeing order, but the judge had also found that it had infringed the parents human riights by the way it had acted toward them before the birth of V, and had awarded sums of damages for that breach. The authority appealed against that finding.
Held: The order was indeed extraordinary. The appeal was allowed.
Thorpe, Wall, LJJ, Holman J
[2004] EWCA Civ 1575, [2006] 2 FCR 121, [2005] 1 FLR 627, [2005] Fam Law 201, [2005] UKHRR 144
Bailii
England and Wales
Children, Human Rights
Updated: 27 January 2022; Ref: scu.572364
