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ON APPEAL FROM CHESTER CIVIL AND
FAMILY JUSTICE CENTRE
His Honour Judge Pearce
CH16P00037
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B e f o r e :
LORD
JUSTICE TOMLINSON
LORD
JUSTICE RYDER
andLADY
JUSTICE KING
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The Respondent did not attend
Hearing date : 7 December 2016
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Crown Copyright ©
Lady
Justice King:
Background
"Whilst I have said I have confidence in MrL's
(the father's) ability to maintain connections with the family in England, I think it is in G's best interests that the fact that continuing contact is in some way formally reflected in an order that is made by this court."
"Thelearned
judge was wrong in
law
to determine that, having decided that the
child
should
live
with her father in Greece, he had no jurisdiction to make any order regulating the time she should thereafter spend with the appellant."
Jurisdiction
(1) whether this court can hear the appeal in relation to Ground 1, notwithstanding that G is now habitually resident in Corfu and
(2) whether HHJ Pearce had jurisdiction to make achild
arrangements order when the matter was before him in May 2016.
"1. The courts of a Member State shall have jurisdiction in matters of parental responsibility over achild
who is habitually resident in that Member State at the time the court is seised."
Conclusion
Lord
Justice Ryder :
Lord Justice Tomlinson :