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MR DAVID REES KC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) (In Private) ____________________
Ms Ruth Cabeza (instructed by the Local Authority) for the Applicant The First Respondent and the Second Respondent did not appear and were not represented Ms Lucy Cheetham (instructed by Dawson Cornwell LLP) for the Third Respondent Hearing date: 9 September 2025 ____________________
The Kazakh authorities had been informed of the case and taken a proactive and extremely helpful stance in relation to the application.
The Kazakh authorities had located the maternal and paternal grandmothers, and they had been notified of YV's birth (in the presence of YV's parents) by a Kazakh social worker.
The paternal grandmother had immediately put herself forward to care for YV and had provided a document indicating that the relevant authorities had approved her guardianship of YV. Following clarification by consular staff at the Kazakh Embassy, I understand this document to be a contingent statement confirming that the grandmother will be entitled to care for YV if they travel to Kazakhstan, rather than an order intended to take priority over the jurisdiction of this court.
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