“…n A Ward of Court, the President took as a starting point the “fundamentally important principle identified by the House of Lords in A v Liverpool City Council [1982] AC 363 and restated in In re W (A Minor) (Wardship: Jurisdiction) [1985] AC 791” in which latter case, Lord Scarman at p 797 said:…”
“…Division the parens patriae or wardship jurisdictions. This is made clear by what he said, at pp 795–796: “The ground of decision in A v Liverpool City Council [1982] AC 363 was nothing to do with judicial discretion but was an application in this field of the profoundly important rule that where Parliament has by statute entrusted…”
“…ily court has no power to require a local authority to expend resources to commission a particular placement or service for a child: A v Liverpool City Council [1982] AC 363, Holmes-Moorhouse vRichmond-upon-Terms London Borough Council [2009] UKHL 7, ACCG v MN [2017] AC 549. On the other hand, the court is not obliged to accept wit…”