The Weekly Law Reports
[1992] 2 WLR 536
[COURT OF APPEAL]
In re
A. (MINORS) (ABDUCTION: CUSTODY RIGHTS)
1992 Feb. 3;
12
Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R., Balcombe and Stuart-Smith L.JJ.
Children
— Custody
— Enforcement
— Mother removing children from Australia without father's knowledge in breach of joint custody rights
— Father's letter to mother indicating intention not to contest removal of children
— Father's subsequent application for children's return
— Whether father “acquiesced” in removal
— Whether court bound to order children's return forthwith
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Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c. 60), Sch. 1, art. 13