CA-2025-000653 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1011

ON APPEAL FROM

Mr Justice Hayden

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

SIR ANDREW MCFARLANE, PRESIDENT OF THE FAMILY DIVISION

LORD JUSTICE BAKER
and

LORD JUSTICE ARNOLD

Re S (Wardship: Removal to Ghana)

Between:

S (through his Litigation Friend, James Alexander Netto) Appellant

-and-

The Father (1) Respondents

The Mother (2)

ICFLPP (Intervenor) (1) Intervenors

ALC (Intervenor) (2)

Deirdre Fottrell KC, Rob George KC and Andrew Powell (instructed by The International Family Law Group) for the Appellant

Rebecca Foulkes and Charlotte Baker (instructed by Dawson Cornwell) for the First Respondent

Rebecca Foulkes and Charlotte Baker (instructed by Dawson Cornwell) for the Second Respondent

Charles Hale KC, Harry Langford and Naomi Hart (instructed by Hunters Solicitors) for the First Intervenor

Lorraine Cavanagh KC and Daniel Currie (instructed by McAlister Family Law) for the Second Intervenor

Hearing date: 12^th June 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 29^th July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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