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- The court determined that the child should not be returned to El Salvador after the mother wrongfully removed him to the UK, the mother's defence that the child had now settled in the UK for the purposes of Art.12(2) being made out. Judgment, 03/04/2017, free
- Mother was objecting to the renewal of British passports for her 3 daughters who were wrongfully removed by the father to Australia over 10 years ago and two of whom were still wards of court. Her main concern was that if their British passports were renewed, they may disappear again with the father to a different country. The court extended both the children's wardship and the order restraining renewal of the British passports for a period of one month, that being a sufficient period to enable the mother to apply to the Australian court to prevent the children from leaving Australia. Judgment, 16/03/2017, free
- An order for the summary return of the 6 year old child to Cyprus was made following an application by the father after the mother removed him to the UK ostensibly for a two week holiday. Judgment, 17/02/2017, free
- Comity necessitated making without notice location and disclosure of information orders where a child has had been removed from Scotland to England, to enable implementation of earlier Scottish orders outside the jurisdiction Judgment, 10/02/2017, free
- The court had to determine whether it had jurisdiction to hear an application under the Children Act 1989 in respect of two children. The father, the applicant, contended that the court had jurisdiction on one of two grounds: (1) that at the date on which proceedings were started the children were habitually resident in England and Wales and that, as a result, this court had jurisdiction under Article 8 of BIIA, or alternatively (2) that the children were wrongfully removed from England and Wales to Latvia at a point when they were habitually resident here, that the father had neither consented to nor acquiesced in their removal, and that as a result this court had jurisdiction under Article 10 of BIIA. Judgment, 08/02/2017, free
- Father's application under Hague Convention 1980 seeking an order for the summary return of his children to Australia. The court found that the children were habitually resident in the UK at the date on which the children were allegedly 'wrongfully retained' and it followed that the children were not wrongfully retained at all. The father's application therefore failed. Judgment, 27/01/2017, free
- The mother was seeking the father's extradition from Nigeria, arguing that the father was in contempt of court, having breached various court orders, in particular, by failing to return their children to this country and by himself fleeing abroad to Nigeria. For that purpose she was seeking a declaration that the contempts of which the father had been found guilty were criminal and not merely civil. She put her case on two bases: the contempts, she said, (i) related to wards of court and (ii) involved interference with the administration of justice. The application was dismissed. Judgment, 18/01/2017, free
- Application by a father for the discharge of long-running wardship proceedings concerning his daughter. The father had been committed to prison on several occasions for not complying with court orders to reveal whereabouts in Egypt his daughter resided and to allow contact with the mother. The application was dismissed. Judgment, 17/01/2017, free
- Mother lived in the UK, the father had absconded to Singapore and the child was living in Singapore with the paternal grandparents. The child was a ward of the UK court and the UK court had jurisdiction to determine future arrangements for the child. The father argued that the child was now settled in Singapore having lived there since 2013, and a return to the UK would put the child in an intolerable situation, thereby exposing him to psychological harm. The father's arguments were rejected and an order was made for the return of the child to the UK. Judgment, 12/01/2017, free
- Father's appeal against the setting aside of a return order in respect of 3 children was dismissed. Judgment, 08/12/2016, free