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Hong Kong Case Law

Return orders

  • 24 Mar 2025

    K v. A

    Citation
    [2025] HKCFI 1024
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP2186/2021

    The respondent was guilty of contempt on Count 1 (disclosure) because the Li affidavit objectively did not disclose HVD’s exact whereabouts forthwith and was prepared to support a stay application rather than to comply with the disclosure order; the respondent’s assertion he authorised disclosure for that purpose was rejected as incredible. He was guilty on Count 2 (return) because he failed to take the necessary steps to return HVD by the 14‑day deadline and the evidence establishes the omission was deliberate or not accidental; the post‑deadline medical explanations did not purge the origin…

  • 29 Aug 2022

    T v. A

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 2631
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP1948/2019

    The Court held that the Return Order unambiguously imposed a mandatory obligation on the defendant to return the minor to Hong Kong within the stipulated deadline; sequestration is in principle an appropriate means to secure the child’s return; consequently the first stage of the three-stage contempt test (construction) is satisfied and the application for leave to issue a writ of sequestration is adjourned for determination of compliance and state of mind at a substantive hearing.