In re C (Children) (Abduction: Rights of Custody) (International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice intervening)

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Custody rights — Breach — Mother taking children from Australia to England for temporary period with father’s agreement — Mother failing to return children at end of temporary period — Judge refusing to return children on grounds habitually resident in England when wrongful retention occurring at end of temporary period — Whether mandatory summary return procedure under Convention applying if habitual residence of child changed to destination state by time of wrongful removal or retention — Whether wrongful repudiatory retention prior to end of agreed period of temporary absence possible in law — Requirements for demonstrating repudiatory retention — Whether children habitually resident in England when retained — Whether mother wrongfully retaining children — Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c 60), Sch 1, art 12

[2017] EWCA Civ 980; [2019] AC 1; [2018] 2 WLR 683; [2018] 1 All ER 476; [2018] 1 FLR 186; [2017] WLR (D) 479, CA

[2018] UKSC 8; [2019] AC 1; [2018] 2 WLR 683; [2018] 3 All ER 1; [2018] 1 FLR 861; [2018] WLR (D) 90; Case details, SC(E)

Appellate History

Commentary

New Law Journal
Child's stay (2018) 168 NLJ 7794, p 9