Top judges warned Cornwall Council last week to improve its adoption procedures or risk being challenged under human rights legislation.
Although Lord Justice Thorpe and Lady Justice Hale ruled that a mother could not appeal against the council’s decision to put her daughter up for adoption, they went on to criticise the decision to place the girl on the adoption register at a meeting at which her mother was not legally represented.
Thorpe warned that, unless the procedure was changed, it could lead to the council having to pay damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 in the future.
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