Cases
RE M (A Child) (2020)
3rd August 2020
Court
Court of Appeal
Practice Areas
Five 4PB members instructed on seminal case on the scope of the High Court’s jurisdiction to protect British children abroad. The Court of Appeal set a ‘necessity’ test for use of the parens patriae jurisdiction.
Teertha Gupta QC, Cliona Papazian and Ralph Marnham represented the Appellant and Ruth Kirby and Michael Edwards represented the Respondent.
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Teertha Gupta KC
Cliona Papazian
Ruth Kirby KC
Michael Edwards
Ralph Marnham
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