Weekly law digests

Abduction

MG v JH [2018] EWHC 3477 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 171 (Nov)

The Family Division adjourned the mother’s application for permission to take the child on holiday to Mexico until the final hearing in the matter in July 2019, to allow for further evidence. The court found that as the mother had previously wrongfully retained the child in Mexico there was a risk of non-return if the child were to return to Mexico. In any event, further evidence was required, particularly from a CAFCASS guardian, before a decision could be made.

Conflict of laws

PJSC Commercial Bank PrivatBank v Kolomoisky and others [2018] EWHC 3308 (Ch), [2019] All ER (D) 74 (Jan)

Various orders were made concerning the claimant Ukrainian bank’s fraud claim for over US$1bn against various defendants. Among other things, the Chancery Division allowed the English defendants’ application to set aside freezing orders made in earlier proceedings, and stayed the bank’s claim against them. Further, the court set aside service of the claim form on the BVI defendants and freezing