A -v- B (Family)

A's application is for an order that B deliver up to her their child C (aged nearly 9) who has been staying with her father. At a hearing that took place in the Bristol County Court in April and in May this year the question of where the child, C, who was born in 2004, should reside was considered. By the Court Order we have noted that, insofar as contact was concerned, the Court said:-

"The contact provisions for the 2008 order, as subsequently amended by the parties by agreement, shall remain in force and are as follows ... and in the summer 3 continuous weeks during the summer where [C] spends her birthday ... alternating between the parties. It should be noted that [C] is to spend her birthday ... with her mother to coincide with a week long holiday with maternal grandparents in Cromer. This then allows a full year to make the booking of the holiday in Cromer in subsequent years to accommodate [C's] alternating holiday time."

Mr Robinson we think it would be useful for a Social Worker to pick C up tomorrow, from the father's address. We think it would be useful if the Social Worker had the mother in her car, or at any rate that the mother was present because presumably the Social Worker will not know C from Eve and the other way around.

For the reasons we have given we do not make any orders about which airport the mother flies back to and the consequences of the undertaking which have been given is a matter for the mother to take advice from her English lawyers about, and which Mr Haines, as we say we find a very puzzling document.