The Weekly Law Reports
[2010] 2 WLR 527
Court of Justice of the European Communities
Proceedings brought by A
(Case C-523/07)
2008 Oct 22;
2009 Jan 29;
April 2
2009 Jan 29;
April 2
President of Chamber A Rosas,
Judges A Ó Caoimh, J N Cunha Rodrigues, U Lõhmus, P Lindh
Advocate General J Kokott
Judges A Ó Caoimh, J N Cunha Rodrigues, U Lõhmus, P Lindh
Advocate General J Kokott
Conflict of laws— Jurisdiction under Council Regulation— Taking child into care— Family returning from Sweden to Finland— Family leading peripatetic life on return but applying for social housing in Finland— Children not attending school and taken into care in Finland— Whether children “habitually resident” there— Whether Finnish courts having jurisdiction in matters of parental responsibility— Powers of court not seised of substance of matter to take “provisional, including protective, measures”— Procedure where no court having jurisdiction—
Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003, arts 8(1), 13, 20(1)