9 May 2025
J v. Q AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 1730
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP2563/2024
The mother’s conduct — abducting the child in breach of interim Shanghai arrangements, failing to comply with a specific court direction about a passport application, persisting in a factual case contradicted by contemporaneous documents, and giving materially inconsistent accounts to different courts — amounted to reprehensible and unreasonable conduct justifying departure from the general practice; accordingly the court ordered the mother to pay the father's costs of the wardship and Hague proceedings, to be taxed party and party if not agreed.