ZC24P00662 - [2025] EWHC 2691 (Fam)

The Applicant and the Respondent have both filed detailed witness statements. I do not intend any discourtesy in not setting out their evidence in any detail. It is mostly opinion evidence setting out their views on H’s best interests and the arrangements for her care in Dubai and England respectively. I am not conducting fact finding in respect of disputed allegations and the evidence is not materially disputed. The parents simply disagree with each other’s welfare cases. There is no need to set out in this judgment the detail of their opinions on where H’s best interests lie. Each has predictably set out a halcyon picture of her future life on Dubai and England respectively.