HCCH: Reports on Experts Meeting on Issues of Domestic / Family Violence
August 21, 2017HCCH: Hague Conference on Private International Law Report on the Experts’ Meeting on Issues of Domestic / Family Violence and the 1980 Hague Child Abduction...
International Child Abduction: How the Hague Convention On The Civil Aspects on International Child Abduction Operates in Canada
May 24, 2017Mixed unions in Canada are growing five times faster than other couples, a new report from Statistics Canada shows. The 2006 census counted 289,400 mixed couples involving one visible minority and another non-visible minority or two people from different visible minority...
Family Law News – The Hague Convention and the Rights of Children
July 24, 2014There is a tension between The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction (the ‘Hague Convention’), which came into effect in 1980 and focuses on the protection of parental custody rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted a decade later and recognises the rights of children to participate in proceedings...
The Hague Convention & the Role of the Child’s Lawyer
April 15, 2014Focus: Proceedings in Canada to return child. Background & purpose of Hague Convention on Child Abduction, Basics Concepts, Defenses & Facilitating Return, Objects of Child & Rights of...