Amean Elgadhy comments on S v F and M [2025] EWHC 439 (Fam) feature in the Metro

Amean Elgadhy was recently featured in Metro.co.uk, commenting on the implications of the recent High Court judgment in S v F and M [2025] EWHC 439 (Fam).

The case examined whether the parents’ decision to relocate S (their 14-year-old son) to Ghana fell within their scope of parental authority, given their concerns that S was at risk of peripheral involvement in gang culture. In the judgment, Mr Justice Hayden ruled that “the decision falls within what I regard as the generous ambit of parental decision-making, in which the State has no dominion.”

Read the article here.