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(1) confirming an interim injunction, restraining the Defendant from removing N., the child of the union between the parties, from the Jurisdiction of the Royal Court;
(2) authorising the Plaintiff to leave the Jurisdiction with N, in order to return to Holland; and
(3) directing the Defendant not to return to Jersey with N, in breach of an order of the Belgian Court.
In 1980 The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was formulated. The basic parts of that Convention were incorporated into Statute in the United Kingdom by the Child Abduction and Custody Act (1985 ). Jersey has not yet enacted that legislation but has requested Her Majesty's Government to include us in the Convention.
"...the principle which governed the position of the court was and always would be what the paramount welfare of the child dictated. Accordingly, kidnapping was but a single factor to be taken into account. The position was summarised by Ormrod LJ in Re R at 426, when he said this:
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