F v F (Minors) (Custody: Foreign Order)

Subject Matter

MINOR — Custody — Enforcement — English mother and French father living in France — French court giving interim custody to mother with access to father — Mother removing children from French jurisdiction — French court granting custody to father — Father seeking enforcement of custody order — Delay of 21 months not attributable to fault of parties — Passage of time — Whether French order to be registered and enforced — Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985, s 16(4)(a), Sch 2, art 10(1)

[1989] Fam 1; [1988] 3 WLR 959