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Hong Kong Case Law

Schooling

  • 14 Aug 2024

    MJCK v. LGLC

    Citation
    [2024] HKFC 154
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC14170/2023

    On balance YCIS best promotes the Child's welfare for 2024/2025 because it provides a mid-point location with school‑bus access to the mother's home (reducing burdensome commute), offers OPRS to address the Child's speech and motor delays, provides Cantonese instruction facilitating family communication, and offers greater likely long‑term stability than Montessori options which the Child would likely need to leave later.

  • 2 Jun 2023

    SG v. GDV

    Citation
    [2023] HKFC 106
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC10217/2020

    The father's Temporary Removal Summons was dismissed because it functioned as a de facto permanent removal, the father's credibility was impaired, there was a real risk the mother would be deprived of access if the children were taken to the US (given her visa/passport issues), and the proposed online schooling breached the Education Ordinance and was contrary to the childrens' best interests; accordingly the mother was permitted to enroll the children in Hong Kong schools and the father's application was refused.

  • 18 Dec 2019

    RM (aka RH) v. SRM

    Citation
    [2019] HKFC 324
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC7451/2016

    Although the mother’s application was found genuine and her childcare and schooling proposals realistic, removing L to Japan would materially and adversely affect the best interests of both children by severing their close sibling bond and disrupting the settled care and schooling that benefits them; accordingly the relocation and transfer of care were refused and the status quo maintained with specific schooling and access orders.

  • 5 Jul 2019

    CS v. WCT

    Citation
    [2019] HKFC 161
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC1930/2019

    On balance and applying the best interests principle, given interim shared care arrangements, the potential stress of a major school change for very young children, unresolved factual disputes that did not justify overturning status quo, the father's summons for leave to transfer the children to Harrow was dismissed and the children were ordered to continue at their current schools.