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Article 1 of the Convention : The acts of State officials, including diplomatic or consular agents, bring persons and property under the jurisdiction of that State, to the extent that they exercise their authority in respect of these persons or that property.
The applicant, a British national living in the United Kingdom, has married a Jordanian citizen by whom she had a daughter.
In Summer 1975 the father took the gid to his family in Jordan and returned without her to the United Kingdom.
At the outcome of contradictory proceedings an English Court granted the applicant custody of her daughter and issued a committal order against the father requiring him to return the girl to the United Kingdom within three weeks. The applicant also required a Jordanian Court to grant her custody of her child but her claim was dismissed in absentia.
The applicant got in touch with the British Consulate in Amman asking it to obtain the custody of her daughter from the Jordanian Court. The Consulate reported on the child's wellbeing, and provided her with a list of lawyers practising in Jordan and registered her daughter in her passport.
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