Parents’ successful appeals against the making of orders refusing them permission to oppose the granting of adoption orders in relation to their children – Re B-S (Children) revisited and confirmed.
13. The law is now to be found set out in Re B-S. In certain significant respects the authoritative guidance given in Re B-S about how judges must approach applications for leave to oppose under section 47(5) differs from that set out in the earlier decisions of this court in Re W (Adoption: Set Aside and Leave to Oppose)  EWCA Civ 1535,  1 FLR 2153, and Re C (A Child)  EWCA Civ 431. This obviously presents potential problems when, as here, appeals are brought in cases where the judgment was given before the decision in Re B-S.