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Research Handbook on International Child Abduction: The 1980 Hague Convention

Edited by: Marilyn Freeman, Nicola Taylor

ISBN13: 9781800372504
Published: June 2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £210.00



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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.

Subjects:
Family Law
Contents:
Foreword xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Spelling, reference or style conventions xx
List of abbreviations xxi

PART I. INTRODUCTION AND KEY THEMES
1. Introduction and key themes 2
Nicola Taylor and Marilyn Freeman

PART II. THE IMPACTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION
2. Long-term reflections of a former milk carton kid 19
Sarah Cecilie Finkelstein Waters
3. 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
4. The global effort to deter parental kidnapping: A history of the Hague Child Abduction Convention 47
Linda Elrod
5. 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
6. The role of the Permanent Bureau in the operation of the HCCH 1980
Child Abduction Convention 80
Gérardine Goh Escolar
7. Fleeing for safety: Helping battered mothers and their children using Article 13(1)(b) 97
Jeffrey Edleson, Sudha Shetty and Mary Fata
8. Child participation and the child objection exception 116
Rhona Schuz
9. 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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