The Weekly Law Reports
[2016] 4 WLR 60
Family Division
Ciccone v Ritchie
[2016] EWHC 608 (Fam)
2015 Dec 21; 2016 Feb 3
MacDonald J
Children— Custody rights— Breach— Mother seeking summary return of 15-year-old child to USA under 1980 Hague Convention— Child applying to be joined as party— Whether joinder appropriate— Whether joinder in best interests of child— Whether desirable to order CAFCASS report—
Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c 60), Sch 1, arts 3, 12, 13
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FPR r 16.21, Practice Direction 16A, para 7.2