Key legal question
Whether the child's removal to Switzerland was wrongful under Art. 3 Hague Child Abduction Convention.
Extracted holding
The removal was not wrongful because the High Court had no existing custody right at the time of removal and no such right was actually exercised then.
Extracted reasoning
Wrongfulness is assessed at the moment of removal. The South African High Court's later decision could not retroactively create custody rights or factual exercise of them; later judicial law-making cannot found a return claim.