25 March 2025 - The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section) - N.S. v United Kingdom (Application 38134/20)
The court's judgment is available here and a summary from the court's website follows .....
Summary
The applicant, N.S., is a British national who was born in 1969 and lives in Wolverhampton.
The case concerns the applicant’s complaint about the decision authorising the adoption of her son,
Y, (born in 2011), against her wishes. Y and his older brother, X (born in 2002), had been placed in
foster care in 2013 after she had been detained on mental-health grounds. They were returned to her
in 2014, but taken into care again a year later when she had a relapse. In 2016 X was returned to her,
but the Family Court ordered that Y be placed for adoption. In November 2019, the Family Court made
an adoption order, dispensing with the applicant’s consent.
Relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), the applicant complains about the
decision to sever family ties between her and Y. She argues in particular that the courts rejected her
request to make a special guardianship order, which would have allowed the prospective adopter to
look after Y while preserving his legal ties with his birth family.
No violation of Article 8
Article 8 Right to Family Life
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