F v M (Hague Convention: Grave Risk) (Rev1)

Mr Magee KC with Mr E Cleland (instructed by Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors) for the Plaintiff/Respondent Mr Toner KC with Ms L Brown (instructed by Millar McCall Wylie Solicitors) for the Defendant/Appellant

Ms Rice KC (instructed by the Official Solicitor) representing the interests of the children

This judgment has been anonymised as it involves three children.� The cyphers given to the parents and children are not their initials.� Nothing must be published which would identify the children or their parents.

[2]������ The plaintiff, who is the respondent to this appeal, and father of the children seeks to maintain a return order made by McBride J (�the trial judge�) on 22 March 2024 in relation to his three children, namely the eldest child, who is now fifteen, the second child who is coming nine and a half and the third child who is seven.

[3]������ McBride J ordered that these three children be returned on or before 16 April 2024 to the United States of America.�