Adoption not made impossible by unlawful surrogacy payment for bearing child. Citations: Times 16-Sep-1996 Statutes: Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 Jurisdiction: Scotland Adoption Updated: 05 November 2022; Ref: scu.78811
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A homosexual sought an adoption order. He intended to raise the child with his male partner. The relationship was readily described as constituting a family. But as for an heterosexual couple the existence of children was not a necessary factor for entitling the couple to qualify as a family. The couple would qualify by themselves, … Continue reading T Petitioner: OHCS 20 Aug 1996
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. . .
The Commission challenged the compatibility of the NI law relating to banning nearly all abortions with Human Rights Law. It now challenged a decision that it did not have standing to bring the case.
Held: (Lady Hale, Lord Kerr and Lord Wilson . .