ROLLINS & VAN HUMMELL

This matter concerned an application by the mother for permission to take their child, S, from Australia to Country C. The father consented to this application. The dispute revolved around the specific timing and duration of S's travel, and how the remaining school holiday period would be spent with the father.

The court was required to determine the precise dates for S's travel to Country C and her return to Australia, ensuring that the father would have a defined period with S during the New South Wales 2017-2018 Christmas school holiday period. The court also needed to consider the parties' liberty to relist the matter concerning emergency travel and address an application for expedition.

By consent of the parties, the court ordered that the mother be permitted to take S to Country C for a period commencing two weeks before the end of the New South Wales school term four 2017 and concluding two weeks prior to the end of the New South Wales 2017-2018 Christmas school holiday period. It was further ordered that S would spend the balance of those school holidays with her father. The court also granted the parties liberty to relist the matter on seven days' written notice regarding emergency travel, refused the application for expedition, and listed the matter for directions on 4 December 2017.