“…8] 2 FLR 1624 (Hogg J exercised the jurisdiction because she considered the circumstances “sufficiently dire and exceptional”); and In re N (Abduction: Appeal) [2013] 1 FLR 457 (McFarlane LJ, as he then was, commented that the jurisdiction “exists in cases which are at the very extreme end of the spectrum”). She then expressly approve…”
“…confined by a classification which limits its exercise to “cases which are at the extreme end of the spectrum”, per McFarlane LJ in In re N (Abduction: Appeal) [2013] 1 FLR 457, para 29. The judgment was ex tempore and it was not necessary to lay down a rule of general application, if indeed that was intended. It may be that McFarlane…”