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Samantha Bangham’s Week in Cases 19 July 2013

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Date:19 JUL 2013
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Samantha Bangham
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Samantha Bangham - Family Law Reporter Wowee it is hot isn’t it?! The very best thing to do seems to be to take all of your annual leave right now and soak up the heatwave. After all it is far too hot to work commute do anything really other than sit in a park eating and drinking! Of course that is what we would do in an ideal world but (un?)fortunately us Brits soldier on so for those of you still sweating away at work here is my roundup of this week’s family law cases.

Firstly we have a decision following hot on the heels of the Supreme Court decision in Re B [2013] UKSC 33: Re B-S (Permission to Oppose Adoption Order) [2013] EWCA Civ 813 [2013] FLR forthcoming. Permission to appeal was granted to the mother by McFarlane LJ who concerned that the Re B decision had altered the Re W (Adoption: Set Aside and Leave to Oppose) [2010] EWCA Civ 1535 [2011] 1 FLR...

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