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Appeal from order quashing appeal of openness order dismissed as an attempt to relitigate placement.
The appellant mother appealed an order quashing her appeal from an openness order regarding her biological daughter, who had been in protection for six years and placed for adoption.
The appellant sought to challenge the adoption placement and have the child placed with extended family.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, finding that placement cannot be determined at an openness hearing, the child consented to the adoption and the openness order, and the appellant was attempting to relitigate previously determined issues.
The court granted an openness order allowing a child to maintain biological parent contact post-adoption.
This is an openness application brought by counsel on behalf of a 14-year-old child in Crown wardship, seeking to establish ongoing contact with both biological parents following the child's proposed adoption by a mentor family.
The child had been in continuous care of the Children's Aid Society since 2008 and was made a Crown ward in 2010.
The child expressed a desire to be adopted by her mentor family while maintaining contact with her parents.
The mother opposed the adoption and sought to have the child returned to her care, but the Court of Appeal upheld the decision that the child's best interests required the adoption to proceed.
The court approved an openness order permitting supervised direct contact and indirect contact between the child and her biological parents, with specific arrangements to be determined by the child and her adoptive parents.
