F v M (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants intervening)

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Custody rights — Abduction — Pakistani mother and child entering United Kingdom and claiming asylum — Court by consent granting father’s application for return of child to Pakistan — Child granted refugee status in United Kingdom — Father seeking to enforce order for child’s return — Whether grant of refugee status bar to court ordering child’s return — Whether father able to challenge grant of refugee status — Whether mother’s allegations against father in asylum claim to be disclosed to court — Need to balance competing rights — Council Directive 2004/83/EC — Council Directive 2005/85/EC — Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) (Cmd 9171) and (1967) (Cmnd 3906)

[2017] EWHC 949 (Fam); [2018] Fam 1; [2018] 2 WLR 178; [2018] 1 FLR 1217; [2017] WLR (D) 594, Fam D