In a judgment handed down on Thursday, 14 July, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that a Member State’s court no longer has jurisdiction to rule on child custody on the basis of the ‘Brussels IIa Regulation’ where the child’s habitual residence has been lawfully transferred, during the proceedings, to the territory of a third State that is a party to the 1996 Hague Convention (Case C-572/21).
This was its answer to the Swedish Supreme Court, which was asking whether—by...