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Parent and child – Specific issue order – Contact. Court of Session: Refusing an appeal by a father who, because of concerns that he would not be able to afford the costs of post-relocation contact, in an appeal against a later interlocutor asked the court to recall a sheriff's interlocutor granting a relocation order allowing the mother of his five-year-old daughter to relocate to the USA with her, the court held that the interlocutor granting the relocation order was a final one, reviewing that interlocutor only arose if the need to do so was consequential on the setting aside of the later interlocutor, and there was no basis for setting aside the later interlocutor.
Parent and child – Specific issue order – Contact. Court of Session: Refusing an appeal by a father who, because of concerns that he would not be able to afford the costs of post-relocation contact, in an appeal against a later interlocutor asked the court to recall a sheriff's interlocutor granting a relocation order allowing the mother of his five-year-old daughter to relocate to the USA with her, the court held that the interlocutor granting the relocation order was a final one, reviewing that interlocutor only arose if the need to do so was consequential on the setting aside of the later interlocutor, and there was no basis for setting aside the later interlocutor.
Chair of the Bar reports back
Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs
A £500 donation from AlphaBiolabs has been made to the leading UK charity tackling international parental child abduction and the movement of children across international borders
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