QS v RS (2015)
15th October 2015
Court
Family Division
Practice Areas
The High Court could exercise its inherent jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody of a child, who had been adopted in Nepal and was a British national resident in Dubai. The English court was the sole court which could remedy the non-recognisability of adoption at all under UAE law, and the fact that the Nepalese adoption was not automatically recognised in England.
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