Mauritius Commercial Bank | MCB [Abbr.]

gross-rating point | GRP

gross-rating point [ GRP ]

Gross-rating point | GRP

Berber Cultural Movement

binary coded matrix | BCM [Abbr.]

Mr McB., an Irish national, and Ms E., of British nationality, an unmarried couple, lived together for more than 10 years and, from November 2008, lived with their three children, born in 2000, 2002 and 2007, in Ireland.

Mr McB brought an appeal before the Supreme Court (Ireland) and on 6 August 2010 that court asked the Court of Justice whether the regulation, in the light of Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (‘the Charter’) concerning respect for private and family life, precludes a Member State from providing by its law that the acquisition of rights of custody by a child’s father, where he is not married to the child’s mother, is dependent on his obtaining a judgment from a national court with jurisdiction awarding such rights of custody to him, on the basis of which the removal of the child by its mother may be considered wrongful.

Accordingly, in December 2009 Mr McB. made an application to the High Court (Ireland) for such a decision.

In November 2009 Mr McB. sought from the appropriate English court an order for the return of his children to Ireland.