Relationships between individuals from different countries are much more common in our world today. If the relationship breaks down and there are children involved, we can have an issue spanning countries! What happens if one parent takes the child to another country without the other parent’s consent? This is international child...
Canada, as a country committed to pluralism, today stands as a beacon of hope for all mankind. At the same time, there is much debate on the role of religion in the public sphere, most particularly in the field of private justice where arbitration and mediation are...
On 11 July 2019, Barbados deposited its instrument of accession to the HCCH Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“Child Abduction Convention”). The Child Abduction Convention, which now has 101 Contracting Parties, will enter into force for Barbados on 1 October 2019. Go to...
Max Blitt QC delivers a presentation at the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Conference in Washington DC on June 7, 2018 on ‘Reducing the Trauma for Children in Hague Convention Child Abduction...
The long anticipated case from the SCC has arrived regarding the key issue of Habitual Residence and the defense under Article 13, where a child objects to returning to his or her habitual residence. Up until the SCC’s ruling today, the approach to determining...
HCCH: Hague Conference on Private International Law Guide to Good Practice on Article 13(1)(B) of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child...
HCCH: Hague Conference on Private International Law Report on the Experts’ Meeting on Issues of Domestic / Family Violence and the 1980 Hague Child Abduction...
Child Abductions, Prevention, Enforcement of Court Orders and Locating...
Mixed 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...
There 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...