Judgment on the applicant father’s application for an order that his daughter Kate, who is now aged 14, be returned forthwith to Malta pursuant to Article 12 of the Hague Convention on the International Aspects of Child Abduction 1980, as incorporated domestically by the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985.
Held: Mostyn J said: ‘there is no need for the judge to ‘incant mechanically’ passages from the authorities, the evidence or the submissions, as if he were ‘a pilot going through the pre-flight checklist.’
Mostyn J
[2014] EWHC 3964 (Fam), [2016] 1 FLR 228
Bailii
Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, Hague Convention on the International Aspects of Child Abduction 1980
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Owens v Owens CA 24-Mar-2017
Unreasonable Behaviour must reach criteria
W appealed against the judge’s refusal to grant a decree of divorce. He found that the marriage had broken down irretrievably, but did not find that H had behaved iin such a way that she could not reasonably be expected to live with H.
Held: . .
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Children, International
Updated: 24 December 2021; Ref: scu.539462