Re N (A Child) (Recognition of foreign adoption) [2016] EWHC 3085 (Fam), [2016] All ER (D) 53 (Dec)
The Family Division granted the applicant’s applications for a declaration recognising her adoption of a child, N, in India, and for an adoption order in respect of N. The court held, among other things, that Re Valentine’s Settlement [1965] 2 All ER 226 remained good law and binding upon judges at first instance. Accordingly, recognition at common law of a foreign adoption, whether the question arose in a court or elsewhere, depended upon, and only upon, the four criteria identified in Re Valentine’s Settlement