C v K

Farzana Tai (instructed by Makin Dixon) for the Applicant Deborah Smithies (instructed by YVA Solicitors) for the Respondent Hearing dates: 3-4 December 2014 ____________________

It will be quite apparent, given the chronology, that the weddings have now taken place; neither the mother nor the children attended. The mother nonetheless wishes the PSO to be lifted so that she has the freedom to take the children to Algeria at some point in the future, possibly next summer (2015) � to visit her family, and to give the children an opportunity to experience their undoubtedly strong culture which they have inherited from both of their parents.

i) The mother threatened to remove the children permanently to live in Algeria in the phone call in January 2012; the father contends that this threat was a real one;

ii) The mother's family are predominately in Algeria; he believes that she has a natural wish to return there now that the marriage has come to an end; by contrast, she has no support network here (that she has no support network here was conceded by her counsel during closing submissions);

iii) The mother instituted divorce, custody and financial remedy proceedings in Algeria at a time when the family were living in the UK; this indicates � he says � her intentions to establish herself legally as a divorced person there, with relevant financial and child arrangement orders in that jurisdiction;