A man who was seeking £400,000 damages from Hammersmith and Fulham Council has dropped his legal action, the council said in a statement earlier this week.
Paul James claimed he was left traumatised by the ordeal of being moved from one foster family to another, which his lawyers said triggered a severe personality disorder in later years.
By the age of three he had already been placed with three foster families, none of whom felt able to adopt him for personal or health reasons. He was eventually placed with a couple in their fifties but when they could no longer cope with him, spent the rest of his childhood in children's homes.
A spokesperson for Hammersmith and Fulham said that after the hearing was completed and the full facts were heard, his lawyers asked the judge for the matter to be withdrawn.
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