The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 2 WLR 1032
Family Division
JM
v
RM
[2021] EWHC 315 (Fam)
2021 Feb 15, 16; 22
Mostyn J
Children— Custody rights— Breach— Mother taking children habitually resident in Australia to England for fixed period with father’s consent— Mother unable to return children at end of agreed period due to Covid-19 restrictions— Mother and children remaining in England for some months before father requesting their return to Australia— Father applying for summary return of children— Whether wrongful retention of children requiring clearly agreed due date of return— Whether father “acquiescing in” retention—
Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c 60), Sch 1, arts 12, 13