LN (A Child) (Without Notice Application for Summary Return)

MR JUSTICE HOLMAN (sitting in public) Re: LN (a child) (without notice application for summary return) ____________________

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MISS S. KANSAL appeared on behalf of the Applicant Father. THE RESPONDENTS did not appear and were not represented. ____________________

In a case such as the present, however, that now clearly begs a question of what is "his home country". Is it England, in which he was born but left for the last time at the age of 1 year and 9 months; or may it be Angola, where he may well have lived for at least that length of time and is currently living now? In her sixth "key theme" Mrs. Justice Pauffley says:

So far as the length of time is concerned, this child may well have spent as long in Angola as he ever spent here. So far as nationality is concerned, none of the people involved in this case is British. The father, as I have said, is Spanish; the child and the mother are of joint Portuguese and Angolan nationality.