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...
Focus: Proceedings in Canada to return child. Background & purpose of Hague Convention on Child Abduction, Basics Concepts, Defenses & Facilitating Return, Objects of Child & Rights of...
The Muslim community in Canada is almost as old as the nation itself. Four years after Canada’s founding in 1867, the 1871 Canadian Census found 13 Muslims among the population. Interestingly enough, the first Mosque built in Canada was the Al Rashid Mosque built in 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta, which is located 300 kilometres from...