Cases

Medway Council v G and Others

Facts

The local authority made a child, S, the subject of a care order following a breakdown in the relationship between his parents. S was placed with foster carers, but was abducted and taken to France by his mother with the assistance of her new husband, M. Upon his return to England M was arrested, convicted and imprisoned for assisting in the abduction of S. S and his mother did not return to England, and remain overseas. The local authority obtained an order preventing publication of information relating to S and preventing the press from seeking information about S from any of those involved in the case. Times Newspapers applied for the insertion of a proviso allowing them to interview M and for the judgments in the care proceedings to be made publicly available.

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