Communicated on 17 June 2019
SECOND SECTION
Application no. 9167/18
S.E. and Others
against Norway
lodged on 7 February 2018
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns a decision that the municipality take a child into local authority care, withdraw the parents’ parental responsibilities for the child, and authorise that the child be adopted by his foster parents.
Under Article 8 of the Convention, the applicants maintain that the above entailed a disproportionate interference with their right to respect for family life.
QUESTION tO THE PARTIES
Did the proceedings in which the applicant parents’ child was taken into local authority care, their parental responsibilities in respect of the child removed and authorisation of the child’s foster parents’ adopting him granted, entail a disproportionate interference with the applicants’ right to respect for family life under Article 8 of the Convention? (See, for example, S.S. v. Slovenia, no. 40938/16, 30 October 2018; S.H. v. Italy, no. 52557/14, 13 October 2015; Pontes v. Portugal, no. 19554/09, 10 April 2012; and Aune v. Norway, no. 52502/07, 28 October 2010.)
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