The WLR Daily case summaries
[2014] WLR (D) 522
CHILDREN— Custody rights— Breach— Mother removing child from Russia without father’s consent— — Father applying for return of child to Russia— — Judge exercising inherent jurisdiction to hear application— — Judge failing to consider whether child should be heard and ordering return— — Whether obligation under inherent jurisdiction to consider whether and how to hear from child— — Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980 (scheduled to the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985) arts 12, 13— — Council Regulation (EC) 2001/2003, article 11(2)