R v Local Commissioner for Administration for the North and East Area of England, ex parte Bradford Metropolitan City Council [1979 2 WLR].
2.
In fact wardship might have availed the applicants – see below.
3.
See eg Re M (An Infant) [1961] Ch 328, Re B (Infants) [1962] 1 Ch 201 and Re T (AJJ) (An Infant) [1970] Ch 688.
4.
See Re H (A Minor) (Wardship – Jurisdiction) [1978] Fam 65. According to Ormrod LJ ibid at page 76 the circumstances would be sufficiently unusual if.
5.
The Juvenile Court powers are inadequate to protect the child's interests.
6.
The child's interests would be better served by the more flexible type of care order which the High Court can make under section 7 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969.
7.
The complexity of the case makes the High Court a better venue.
8.
On the basis of the Court of Appeal's decision in Re H.
