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This judgment was delivered in private. The judge has given leave for this version of the judgment to be published on condition that (irrespective of what is contained in the judgment) in any published version of the judgment the anonymity of the children and members of their family must be strictly preserved. All persons, including representatives of the media, must ensure that this condition is strictly complied with. Failure to do so will be a contempt of court.
The mother�s application for permission to remove the child from the United Kingdom is refused.
I am concerned with a child called J. He was born on 15 August 2011 and is therefore aged three years and ten months. His parents are KN (aged 22) and JN (aged 23). They met in 2010, married in June 2011 and separated in January 2013, when J was about 18 months of age. The mother has a new partner, CS, and they have a baby daughter called A, aged three months.
The father lives with his parents in Eastbourne, East Sussex. The mother lives with CS, J and A in a one bedroom chalet in St Leonards, East Sussex, owned by her parents who live in Australia. CS came to court, but has not filed a statement and was not called to give evidence.
The paternal grandmother is WN. The maternal grandparents are LS and SS. They emigrated to Western Australia in May 2013 and were followed by their two sons, leaving the mother in the United Kingdom.
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