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[1978 ] 3 All ER 1222.
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[1979 ] 2 All ER 297.
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On this and other details see Freeman , 129 NLJ 223 (1979 ).
4.
See also new s 59 of the Children Act 1975 .
5.
A concept which is not defined by statute. Cf Children Act 1975 s 88 which defines what being in the ‘care’ of a voluntary organisation means.
6.
The reason is that the grounds in s1 of the 1969 Act are couched in the present tense and are, therefore, not apt to cover future forseeable harm.
7.
See s 14 of the Children Act 1975 .
8.Per Houghton report Cmnd 5107 para 152.
9.
See Freeman 1976 6 Family Law 136; Eekelaar 1977 40 MLR 121 and Bawden v Bawden (1978) 3 All ER 1216 (decided in 1975).
10.
[1979 ] 2 All ER 289.