Proceedings brought by C

Subject Matter

CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under Council Regulation — Taking child into care — Swedish court ordering children to be taken into care and placed with foster family — Mother taking children to Finland — Finnish police taking children into care and handing over to Swedish authorities — Mother challenging decision in Finnish court — Council Regulation on jurisdiction and enforcement applying to “civil matters relating to … parental responsibility” — Whether taking child into care matter relating to parental responsibility — Whether “civil matter” — Whether civil matters including public law acts — Whether single judicial decision ordering child be taken into care and placed outside his original home in foster family falling with scope of Regulation — Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003, art 1

(Case C-435/06); EU:C:2007:714; [2008] Fam 27; [2008] 3 WLR 419; [2008] 1 FLR 490, ECJ