The Weekly Law Reports
[2013] 2 WLR 1061
Court of Appeal
A v A and another (Children: Habitual Residence)
[2012] EWCA Civ 1396
2012 July 6;
Oct 26
Thorpe, Rimer, Patten LJJ
Children— Custody rights— Jurisdiction— Habitual residence— Three children born in England— Father removing children from mother while family on holiday in Pakistan and keeping them there without mother’s consent— Fourth child born in Pakistan while mother forcibly detained there by father— Father thwarting mother’s attempt to bring all children to England— Whether children born in England retaining English habitual residence— Whether child born in Pakistan acquiring on birth habitual residence in England— Whether court having jurisdiction to order return of all or any of children to England