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1. On 23rd October 1998, in terms of a written judgment, I declined the Plaintiff's application for the return of his son to him in Luxembourg, that application having been made in terms of the Child Abduction and Custody Ordinance, Cap. 512, which has extended the great majority of the provisions of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction into Hong Kong law. I did so on the basis that, in the circumstances of the case, the Ordinance did not apply. I further de