Case name N (A Child) (Adoption Order) Case number [2014] EWFC 1491
Location High Court (Family Division)
Judge Mr Justice Moor
A recent family court decision has examined the relationship between special guardianship and adoption orders in light of the approach taken by the Court of Appeal in Re B-S. The child to which the proceedings relate had spent the first seven months of her life in hospital due to a number of continuing disabilities. After this, she moved in with the applicants where she has lived for five years. The local authority and the guardian supported their application for an adoption order. The father (supported by the paternal grandmother) argued that a special guardianship order was the most appropriate order to make and also applied for a contact order.
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