Permission to Appeal Share Valuation Decision Refused
Under Section 11 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, an appeal to the Upper Tribunal (UT) against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) can only be made...
Continue readingA recent case dealt with the issues surrounding the respective rights of a parent and child in unusual circumstances.
The natural father of the child wished to join in the proceedings to oppose his son being adopted. The unusual feature was that the father had only recently found out that the child was his. Previously, he had mistakenly believed that the boy had been fathered by another man.
The child had been living with the prospective adopters for two years and was both happy and settled. The Court ruled that his best interests would not be served by allowing the natural father to contest the adoption proceedings.