18 March 2016
Nottingham City Council v LW and others [2016] EWHC 11 (Fam), [2016] All ER (D) 59 (Mar)
The Family Division considered the applicant local authority’s application for an interim care order regarding LW, who had been born on 16 January 2016. The court criticised delays arising from the local authority’s conduct and stressed the importance of making applications for public law proceedings in respect of new born babies timeously and especially, where the circumstances arguably required the removal of the child from its parent(s), within at most five days of the child’s birth.
