VW and XY (Children: Return Order to Romania) [2025] EWHC 3377 (Fam)

This case concerns a mother’s application for summary return of the children to Romania under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 incorporating the 1980 Hague Convention. The Father raised “various purported defences” [3] of no habitual residence in Romania, consent, and child’s objections which were not accepted by the court. The judge ordered that the children should be returned to Romania by the mother, and the father should not accompany them.