Father’s case over daughter’s return set for December hearing

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The High Court scheduled an Irish father’s case seeking State action to help return his daughter from Poland for a hearing in December, expected to last one day. His identity is withheld to protect the child.

The action concerns the father’s allegation that Irish authorities failed to help after his daughter was taken to Poland without his consent. The court had heard that a Polish court ordered her return to Ireland, but Poland’s children’s ombudsman appealed that order for a second time.

The father brought the case against the Taoiseach and the Ministers for Justice and Foreign Affairs. State lawyers argued that Polish authorities must execute the Polish court order; they told the High Court they would file their defence the next day.