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Adoption – Order. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed a mother's appeal against the rejection of applications made by her in the present proceedings by which she sought to challenge the care and placement orders made in respect of her daughter who had been placed with prospective adopters. The Court decided that the judge who had made the orders had been justified in doing so for the reasons he had given.
Adoption – Order. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed a mother's appeal against the rejection of applications made by her in the present proceedings by which she sought to challenge the care and placement orders made in respect of her daughter who had been placed with prospective adopters. The Court decided that the judge who had made the orders had been justified in doing so for the reasons he had given.
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