Courts can make contact orders between child living in Pakistan and parent in UK

English and Welsh courts have jurisdiction to make contact orders between children living outside the EU and their parents, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The court said that the boy was born in 2000 and was a British citizen.

His mother originates from India and his father from Pakistan.

In 2007, the mother applied for a contact order to obtain as much telephone contact as possible and to stop the grandparents encouraging the boy to call them “mum” and “dad”.

The High Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to make the order, but the mother appealed.

The nub of the issue is the contact which the child should have with his mother in this country. Of course, the difficulties of enforcement must also be taken into account, but the courts of England and Wales had jurisdiction.