19 February 2016
Re B (A Child) (Habitual Residence: Inherent Jurisdiction) [2016] UKSC 4, [2016] All ER (D) 37 (Feb)
The Supreme Court, in allowing the appellant’s appeal, held in a case determining whether the court had jurisdiction based on habitual residence of a child, that the modern concept of a child’s habitual residence operated in the expectation that when a child had a new habitual residence, he lost his old one. Only a degree of integration was required in the new state. It was highly unlikely that a child would be left in limbo without a habitual residence.
