Key legal question
Whether the appellate court could deny the father's request to keep parental authority over the children after relocation.
Extracted holding
The appellate decision was set aside on this point and the case remitted for fresh fact-finding and a new decision.
Extracted reasoning
The lower court relied on an untenable legal basis, namely that the mother would otherwise commit a criminal offence and the father could seek return under the Hague Convention. That reasoning was wrong; the father had not shown the appellate court's broader factual assessment was made.