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NLJ this week: Child abductions on holiday (Pt 2)

30 September 2022
Issue: 7996 / Categories: Legal News , Family , Child law , International justice
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In the second in a series of articles in NLJ on child abductions, Mani Singh Basi looks at cases where children go on holiday and are not returned home. 

The Hague Convention helps secure the swift return of wrongfully removed children in many cases, but what are the limitations of the Convention?

One major difference between domestic legislation and the Convention is the child’s welfare. While the child’s short-term welfare is a key consideration under the Convention, the long-term welfare of the child is considered to be a matter for the domestic courts.

Basi writes that this ‘is a very specialist area of the law with concepts that are not found within the standard family cases’.

Read the latest piece here, and Part 1 here.

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NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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