Manchester City Council v D (Application for Permission Withdraw Proceedings after Abduction) [2021] EWHC 1191

The local authority was granted leave to withdraw care proceedings where the children had been unlawfully abducted to Pakistan and were not likely to be returned. The court however had made the children wards of court and ordered that they be returned to the jurisdiction. The wardship was continued and the judgment passed to the police and Interpol.