High Court Considers Domestic Violence Victims Abandoned Abroad

In the current case of R (AM) v SSHD [2022] EWHC 2591 (Admin), the High Court  addressed an underpublicized type of home abuse, identified to campaigners as ‘transnational marriage abandonment’.

The case concerned a Pakistani girl resident within the UK, who had been left stranded in Pakistan and separated from her two-year-old youngster after being deserted on what was supposedly a household vacation by her abusive husband. Handing down judgment, Mrs Justice Lieven held that the…