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Public Children: State versus parents
Alice Twaite looks at ‘hidden’ litigants in person and practical safeguards for parents facing removal of a child ‘Parental efforts to challenge a refusal of legal aid, and aspects of the funding scheme, through judicial review are “stymied” by lack of costs protection, due to the very legal aid ineligibility they seek to challenge.’ Amid …
Cases Referenced
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- G v N County Council [2008] EWHC 975 (Fam)
- Re B (A Child) [2013] UKSC 33
- Re B-S (children) (adoption: leave to oppose) [2013] EWCA Civ 1146
- Re D (A Child) (No 2) [2015] EWFC 2
- Re D (a child) (non-availability of legal aid) [2014] EWFC 39
- Re DE (a child) [2014] EWFC 6
- Re G (Care: Challenge to Local Authoritys Decision) [2003] EWHC 551 (Fam)
- Re L-A (Children) [2009] EWCA Civ 822
- Re S (Minors) (Care order: implementation of care plan); Re W (Care orders: adequacy of care plan [2002] UKHL 10