[2025] EWHC 2961 (Fam)

I was sent an electronic bundle comprising 510 pages in advance of the hearing. I have also been provided with the following: (a) 3 audio tapes; (b) counsels’ skeleton arguments; (c) the child’s English medical records; (d) a bundle comprising 14 pages of email communication relating to the mother’s employment application in 2024 and (e) a bundle of authorities. There were some further documents submitted which, with the exception of the applicant’s (non-agreed) chronology, I did not read as there were issues between the parties’ representatives due to the lateness of filing of these documents.

It was agreed at the Bar that it was unnecessary for the court to hear any oral evidence in order for this application to be determined. I endorsed that position at the outset of the hearing, which then proceeded by way of oral submissions.