“…ot have her attention drawn to and did not therefore refer in her ex tempore judgment to: (i) the leading domestic case on step-parent adoptions Re P (a Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 1174 or the European case of Söderbäck v Sweden [1999] 2 FLR 250; or (ii) the provisions of s.46(6) Adoption and Children Act 2002 (‘ACA’).…”
“…In Re P (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 1174; [2015] 1 FLR 1327 (‘Re P’), McFarlane LJ (as he then was) took what he described at para. [1] as a ‘timely opportunity to consider how an adoption application…”