[2025] EWHC 2508 (Fam)

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This judgment was delivered in private. Any published version of the judgment must strictly preserve the anonymity of the children and members of their family. All persons, including representatives of the media, must ensure that this condition is strictly complied with. Failure to do so will be a contempt of court.

THE CHILD ABDUCTION AND CUSTODY ACT 1985

(INCORPORATING THE 1980 HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION)

THE CHILDREN: AB (aged 14) and CD (aged 10)

BETWEEN

The Special Guardians (SG1 and SG2)

First and Second Applicants

And

The Mother

Respondent

Andrew Powell (counsel) instructed by Dawson Cornwell LLP

for the First Applicant (SG1)

Mani Singh Basi (counsel) instructed by Hopkin Murray Beskine

for the Second Applicant (SG2)

Miriam Best (counsel) instructed by Ben Hoare Bell LLP

for the Respondent Mother

Re AB and CD (Children) (No 3)

(1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention: Set Aside)

JUDGMENT

Nicholas Stonor KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge

26 September 2025