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MISS KATIE GOLLOP KC (Sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) ____________________
Frankie Shama (instructed by Lyons Davidson LLP) for the Applicant Jonathan Rustin (instructed by Dawson Cornwell LLP) for the Respondent Hearing dates: 21 and 22 July 2025 ____________________
In his witness statement, the father said that after he got back together with the mother in 2022, " we resumed our plans to relocate the family to England and arrange the Spanish citizenship of our children�.the Mother authorised me to take the necessary steps for this, which was ratified in the presence of a public notary on 4 February 2022. " When, in oral evidence, he was asked how it was that the document did not ratify relocation of the family to England, if this was what the mother was consenting to, the father had no answer.
" (a) to secure the prompt return of children wrongfully removed to or retained in any Contracting State; and
(b) to ensure the rights of custody and of access under the law of one Contracting State are effectively respected in the other Contracting States."
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