P, Re (Inherent Jurisdiction Return: Return Order: Welfare Analysis)

Mr Christopher Hames KC and Miss Charlotte Baker for the father Miss Allison Munroe KC and Dr Charlotte Proudman for the mother Mr Michael Edwards for the child via her children's Guardian Hearing dates: 16-20 January 2023 ____________________

a) Prior to P's birth and when she was pregnant, the father required the mother to either ask his permission to go out or to tell him where she was going;

b) Following P's birth, the mother had to seek the father's permission to visit her family;

c) On one occasion, following an urgent visit to her grandmother when she had not obtained the father's prior permission, the mother returned home to find the kitchen extremely messy. The father told her he had done this to teach her to do her duty as a wife;

d) In January 2017, the mother and father rowed in their car on the way home from the paternal grandparents' home. Reaching between the seats whilst driving, the father punched the mother's left thigh. In so doing, he was careless of P who was being breastfed. She was jolted but was otherwise unhurt. The mother was hurt and upset by the father's behaviour. This was the only occasion on which the father hit the mother; and