X (Adopted Child: Access To Court File); FC 9 Sep 2014

References: [2014] EWFC 33
Links: Bailii, Jud
Coram: Sir James Munby P FD
The applicant’s father had been adopted. Both he and the adopting parents had since died. The applicant now sought disclosure of the records to reveal her the court record of her father’s adoption order.
Held: The order should be made.
Statutes: Adoption and Children Act 2002 79(4)
This case cites:

  • Cited – Re H (Adoption: Disclosure of Information ) ([1995] 1 FLR 236)
    An application was made by the sister of an adopted child for disclosure of the records held in order to allow her to make contact and to warn her of the fact that she might have an inherited genetic disease.
    Held: The jurisdiction to grant . .
  • Cited – D -v- Registrar General ([1997] 2 FLR 240)
    The court considered the procedure to be followed in applications for disclosure to other family members of information held by the Registrar to allow them to contact the adopted child. . .
  • Cited – FL -v- Registrar General FD (Bailii, [2010] EWHC 3520 (Fam), [2011] 2 FCR 229, [2011] Fam Law 453, [2011] 2 FLR 630)
    The claimant sought disclosure of information held by the respondent as to the identities of her pre-adoptive natural parents. . .