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CANNINGS REVIEW: Human rights may be infringed in Munchausen adoption cases

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Parents of children adopted as a result of the controversial Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) theory could have a case before the European Court of Human Rights, according to a leading human rights lawyer.

Shubhaa Srinivasan, a solicitor at Leigh Day & Co, also believes the Government should widen the current judicial review in the wake of the Angela Cannings judgment to include cases of children already adopted.

"In adoption cases where there is a possibility that a parent has been wrongly concluded as having MSBP and the child is taken away and (the parent) cannot find any other means of redress, then there is a possible infringement of article six and article eight (of the Human Rights Act), which is their right to a family life," she said.

Srinivasan also believes that cases where medical experts did not disagree should be reviewed.

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