The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 3 WLR 975
House of Lords
In re M and another (Children) (Abduction: Rights of Custody)
[2007] UKHL 55
2007 Nov 21,
22;
Dec 5
Dec 5
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Children
— Custody rights
— Breach
— Children habitually resident in Zimbabwe
— Mother removing children to England
— Father issuing proceedings under Hague Convention for their immediate return over two years later
— Children settled in England and objecting to return
— Whether court having jurisdiction to order return under Convention once children settled
— Exercise of discretion to order return
— Whether children to be returned
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Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c 60), Sch 1, arts 12, 13, 18