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LNB NEWS: Updated guidance for related asylum proceedings and 1980 Hague Convention proceedings

10 March 2023
Categories: Legal News , Child law , International , Immigration & asylum
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The Offices of the Senior President of Tribunals and the President of the Family Division have issued updated jurisdictional case management guidance in circumstances where related and concurrent asylum proceedings, and the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on Civil International Aspects of Child Abduction (1980 Hague Convention) proceedings, are ongoing. 

Lexis®Library update: The guidance has been updated in light of the decision of the Supreme Court in G v G (Secretary of State for the Home Department and Others Intervening) [2021] UKSC 9, [2021] 2 FLR 536 (see LNB News 19/03/2021 96).

For the guidance, see:

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