Abduction Consent News Today

G (Abduction Consent discretion) [2021] EWCA Civ 139 (09 February 2021) The case concerned an appeal against a return order made under the 1980 Hague Convention. The appeal mainly centred on the judge’s exercise of his discretion to make a return order, although the father challenged the findings made on the issue of consent. ___ The trial judge had found that the father had consented to the mother bringing the children to England from Romania, but nevertheless exercised his discretion to mak...