The court held that, when a court was first seised for the purposes of art 19 of Council Regulation (EC) 2201/2003 and had thereafter established jurisdiction, a subsequent change of the subject child’s habitual residence would not result in the court first seised losing jurisdiction during the period for which the lis subsisted, with the result that the French court’s order in the instant case would be enforced.
The Family Division allowed the mother’s appeal following a fact finding hearing as to allegations of rape and domestic abuse in the course of private law proceedings relating to a two-year-old girl.
The Family Division, in making the adoption order sought by the applicant, held that such an order was in the child’s best interests and that the ‘home’ requirement in s 42(3) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 had been met.
The Family Division dismissed the appellant husband’s appeal against the Family Court’s decision to grant the respondent wife’s application for a declaration that the appellant’s unilateral declaration of divorce (the talaq) had been revoked by a Syrian court, and the parties had remained married at the time of the respondent’s petition for divorce in England and Wales.
The Family Division dismissed the father's applications for child arrangements orders and made case management orders in relation to the inherent jurisdiction application seeking summary return.