Charting developments in international family law
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The 1980 Hague Convention / the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court / abduction from care or in pending care proceedings / the 1996 Hague Convention
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The 1996 Hague Convention / the Family Law Act 1986
London Borough of Hackney v P and Ors in the Court of Appeal
Re S (A Child) (Jurisdiction) and the subsequent costs judgment
Re P (Appeal: Forced Marriage Protection Order: Jurisdiction)
Recent post - Re W-H, analysis of a live streamed appeal
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The 1996 Hague Convention / domestic recognition within the UK under the Family Law Act 1986
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Jurisdictional issues in care proceedings / recovery of children abducted from care / cooperation between relevant authorities in public law cases with an international element both generally and under the 1996 Hague Convention / Kinship care and transnational Kinship care
London Borough of Hackney v P and Ors in the Court of Appeal
Unaccompanied asylum seeking children in hotels - not looked after but overlooked
Children treated as adults - Experiences at Dover and Manston for asylum seeking children
Recent post - Article 39 v SSHD [2023] EWHC 1398 (Fam)
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Relocation applications both international and internal
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Court of Protection / medical treatment cases with an international element
Introduction to the blog
International family law in relation to children and vulnerable adults, in all of its constituent parts, tends to be fast moving. There are a very large number of reported cases and published decisions which tend to build upon a considerable body of existing case law. Keeping up with developments can be difficult.
This blog is intended to do two things.
Firstly, to provide regular case law updates on recently published decisions. With those updates, it is intended to alert practitioners to developments in the law in relation to the international movement of children, or otherwise to draw attention to the application of established legal principles to particular factual scenarios.
Secondly, in less frequent (but it is hoped still regular) blog posts, it is intended to provide summaries of the law in relation to specific areas of international family law. Those summaries may have been prompted by a recent case which has turned the spotlight on to a particular issue. Alternatively, there may have been some other development that deserves more detailed consideration. Typically, the blog posts will have been prepared by the authors of this blog. From time to time, guest writers may provide a different perspective. We aim to host writers that are experts in their particular fields as regularly as they will agree to write for the blog.
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The authors can be contacted at: theinternationalfamilylawblog@gmail.com - please do get in touch if there are any particular issues that you might like to see covered. It is not possible to dispense particular and/or specific legal advice in relation to any proceedings that are before the courts of England and Wales or elsewhere in the world through this blog, however. Readers are asked to read and consider the disclaimer page in relation to the analysis that is offered.