Case No. ZC20C00330

Lord Wilson stated at ¶46: “The identification of a child’s habitual residence is overarchingly a question of fact. In making the following three suggestions about the point at which habitual residence might be lost and gained, I offer not sub rules but expectations which the fact finder may well find to be unfulfilled in the case before him: a) the deeper the child’s integration in the old state, probably the less fast his achievement of the requisite degree of integration in the new state; b) the greater the amount of adult pre-planning of the move, including prearrangements for the child’s day to day life in the new state, probably the faster his achievement of that requisite degree; and c) were all the central members of the child’s life in the old state to have moved with him, probably the faster his achievement of it and, conversely, were any of them to have remained behind and thus to represent for him a continuing link with the old state, probably the less fast his achievement of it.” 9. In