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Research Handbook on International Child Abduction: The 1980 Hague Convention

Research Handbook on International Child Abduction: The 1980 Hague Convention

Author: Marilyn Freeman; Nicola Taylor
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781800372504
Published In: June 2023
Format: Hardback
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With a focus on the 1980 Hague Convention, this cutting-edge Research Handbook provides a holistic overview of the law on international child abduction from prevention, through voluntary agreements and Convention proceedings, to post-return and aftercare issues.

Analysing the repercussions of abduction from the perspectives of both abducted children and the therapeutic professionals engaged in their cases, chapters assess the contributions of the many professionals and key agencies involved in the field. Identifying the 1980 Hague Convention as the principal global instrument for dealing with child abduction, the Research Handbook traces its role, history, development and impact, alongside the mechanisms required for its effective use. Evaluating current trends, areas of concern in legal practice and various regional initiatives, it considers alternatives to high-conflict court proceedings in international child abduction cases. The Convention’s strengths, successes, weaknesses and gaps are discussed, and the Research Handbook concludes by addressing the need to tackle the challenges in its future operation.

Interdisciplinary and accessible in approach, the contributions from renowned subject specialists will prove useful to students and scholars of human rights and family law, international law and the intersections between law and gender studies, politics and sociology. Its combination of research, policy and practice will be of use to legal practitioners working in family law alongside NGOs and central authorities working in the field.

Foreword xvii

Acknowledgements xix

Spelling, reference or style conventions xx

List of abbreviations xxi

PART I. INTRODUCTION AND KEY THEMES

Introduction and key themes 2

Nicola Taylor and Marilyn Freeman

PART II. THE IMPACTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION

Long-term reflections of a former milk carton kid 19

Sarah Cecilie Finkelstein Waters

Ghosts in our genes: Psychological issues in child abduction and high conflict cases 30

Sarah Calvert

PART III. THE 1980 HAGUE CONVENTION – HISTORY AND LONGITUDINAL TRENDS

The global effort to deter parental kidnapping: A history of the Hague Child Abduction Convention 47

Linda Elrod

The value and challenges of statistical studies looking at the operation of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 63

Nigel Lowe and Victoria Stephens

PART IV. THE 1980 HAGUE CONVENTION – IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATIONALISATION

The role of the Permanent Bureau in the operation of the HCCH 1980

Child Abduction Convention 80

Gérardine Goh Escolar

Fleeing for safety: Helping battered mothers and their children using Article 13(1)(b) 97

Jeffrey Edleson, Sudha Shetty and Mary Fata

Child participation and the child objection exception 116

Rhona Schuz

Judicial activism: A 20-year evolution 132

Sir Mathew Thorpe

PART V INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION IN SELECTED GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

10.

The European Court of Human Rights 150

Thalia Kruger and Sara Lembrechts

11.

The Court of Justice of the European Union and international abduction

of children 164

Costanza Honorati

12.

International child abduction in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific: Similarities and differences 180

Mark Henaghan, Christian Poland and Clement Kong

13.

The 1980 Convention comes of age in the United States 192

Stephen Cullen and Kelly Powers

14.

International child abduction in Asia 201

Yuko Nishitani

15.

International child abduction in Africa 219

Julia Sloth-Nielsen

16.

The Caribbean and international child abduction – this is my child: catch me if you can! 233

Diahann Gordon Harrison

PART VI. NON-HAGUE CONVENTION COUNTRIES

17.

International child abduction and non-Hague Convention countries 245

Jeremy Morley

18.

International child abduction in India 265

Anil Malhotra and Ranjit Malhotra

PART VII. KEY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION AND HAGUE CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS

19.

The CRC perspective in the context of international child abduction and the 1980 Hague Convention 280

Ann Skelton

20.

The continuing challenge of the 1980 Hague Convention – a judicial perspective 299

The Honourable Mr Justice Alistair MacDonald

21.

Legal perspective: Remedying international child abduction – the impact of international developments upon the English legal approach 314

Henry Setright KC and Michael Gration KC

22.

International child abduction from the perspective of a Central Authority under the 1980 Hague Convention 332

Joëlle Schickel-Küng and Anna Claudia Alfieri

23.

NGO/support services perspective: The importance of an independent specialist centre on international family conflicts 346

Suzanne Labadie

24.

Cross-border family mediation in parental child abduction cases 368

Ischtar Khalaf-Newsome

PART VIII. REFLECTIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

25.

Whither the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention? 388

Nigel Lowe KC (Hon)

26.

Nurturing the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention 404

Marilyn Freeman and Nicola Taylor

430

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