The Weekly Law Reports
[2021] 1 WLR 5966
Court of Appeal
*Regina (GA and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
[2021] EWCA Civ 1131
2021 July 15; 23
Moylan, Peter Jackson, Elisabeth Laing LJJ
Children— Parental responsbility— Passport— Mother applying for British passports for children resident in foreign country— Passport Office refusing application on basis father having sole parental responsibility for children under law of foreign country— Whether Passport Office required to consider whether application of foreign law to question of parental responsibility manifestly contrary to public policy having regard to best interests of children—
Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children (1996) (Cm 7727), arts 16, 22