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Law digests: 12 June 2020

10 June 2020
Issue: 7890 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Adoption

HX v A local authority and others [2020] EWHC 1287 (Fam), [2020] All ER (D) 16 (Jun)

Notwithstanding the criticisms the court had levelled at the first respondent local authority and the previous children’s guardian, regarding the steps taken during the care and placement proceedings to identify and locate a child’s birth father, the birth father had not demonstrated the highly exceptional circumstances grounded in a fundamental breach of natural justice required to justify the High Court revoking an adoption order pursuant to its inherent jurisdiction. Accordingly, the Family Division set aside the birth father’s application to revoke the adoption order, concerning a child whom the Red Cross had reunited with the birth mother, after she had fled Uganda and had claimed asylum in the UK, and where she had allegedly indicated to the Red Cross that the child had been the product of rape, and had initially provided no information regarding the birth father.


Company

Re Lehman Brothers Europe Ltd (in administration) [2020] EWHC 1369 (Ch), [2020]

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DWF—19 appointments

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Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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