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- Mother's appeal against an order for the child's return to the US after the court found that the child had been habitually resident in the US at the time of his removal from the US to England and that the father had not acquiesced to his removal. The appeal was allowed on the acquiescence issue and the return order was set aside. Judgment, 21/12/2017, free
- Father's appeal against an order which allowed the mother, who had previously abducted the child to Israel and made unfounded allegations against the father, direct contact with the child was allowed. Judgment, 20/12/2017, free
- Application by father for return of children to Lithuania. Application adjourned for father to attend, he having on a previous occasion failed to keep a promise not to take the children from the mother upon her return. Judgment, 06/11/2017, free
- Mother's application to have the return order, ordering her to return the children to their father in America, set aside on the grounds of (a) material non-disclosure at the hearing on 14 September 2017 and (b) a material change of circumstances since the hearing on 14 September 2017. She also contended that the return order should be set aside by reason of her being "denied the right of representation" at that hearing. The application was dismissed, the judge saying that to set aside the return order absent a change of circumstances or a material non-disclosure would be to allow the mother to have "two bites at the cherry" and would act to undermine the concept of appeal. Judgment, 06/11/2017, free
- Father's application for the return of his daughter to America. Mother may have a defence under Article 13(b) of the Hague Convention but both the children of the parties are American citizens and the son still resides in America with the father. For the mother to see her son in the future, she would have to return to America to resolve the issue there. Judgment, 06/11/2017, free
- The issue on this appeal was whether the child, who was the daughter of an Italian father and a Latvian mother, should be returned to Italy (which is agreed to have been her country of habitual residence at the relevant time) following her wrongful abduction from Italy to England by her mother in February 2016. The appeal was allowed. Judgment, 31/10/2017, free
- Father was committed to prison for failing to comply with court orders in relation to his children who had been wrongfully retained in Nigeria. Judgment, 05/10/2017, free
- Father's application for a summary return of the children to the jurisdiction of Romania. Application granted. Judgment, 03/10/2017, free
- These proceedings concerned the father's application for the return of the child to Lithuania pursuant to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980. Judgment, 29/09/2017, free
- An order was made that the children be returned to Israel but it would not take effect until 15 days after the promulgation by the First-tier Tribunal of its decision on the appeal by the mother and the children against the refusal of the grant of asylum by the Home Secretary. Judgment, 15/09/2017, free