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Category Archives: Child Abduction
High Court orders summary return of child to Pakistan
C (A Child: Summary Return to Pakistan), Re [2025] EWHC 1427 (Fam) (04 March 2025) In this case, Nicholas Stonor KC granted the mother’s application for the summary return to Pakistan of a young boy, A, who was aged 17 … Continue reading
Abduction and asylum: Supreme Court holds child named on parent’s asylum application is protected from refoulement
G v G [2021] UKSC 9 (19 March 2021) The Supreme Court has held that a child named as a dependant on her parent’s asylum claim who could objectively be understood to have made a request for international protection had … Continue reading
Pakistan and Child Abduction: Lahore High Court holds ‘Hague Convention is not an extradition treaty’
Pakistan is notorious for child abduction. In the case of Sumayyah Moses v SHO and Others (Writ Petition No. 74048 of 2019) PLD 2020 Lahore 716, the Lahore High Court explained that the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International … Continue reading
Posted in Cases, Child Abduction, Children, Citizenship and Nationality, Court of Appeal, Expert Evidence, Extradition, Families, Family Court, Foreign law, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, Inherent Jurisdiction, Islam, Judicial Review, Lahore High Court, Nationality, Pakistan, South Africa
Tagged Case Law, Child Abduction, Children, Court of Appeal, Hague Convention, Pakistan, Spouses
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Lahore High Court ruling on Pakistan and Child Abduction
In Abid Hussain (Petitioner) v Rukhsana Munir and others (Respondents) 2020 YLR 1533 Lahore, Miss Aalia Neelum J directed Pakistan’s police authorities to produce two Dutch girls of Pakistani origin, who had been abducted by their own mother and then taken … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abduction, Children, Citizenship and Nationality, Divorce, Families, Family Court, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, Judicial Review, Lahore High Court, Netherlands, Pakistan
Tagged British Nationality, Case Law, Child Abduction, Children, Judicial Review, Pakistan, Removals
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High Court of Sindh on Pakistan and the Hague Convention
The case of Mst Farhat (Petitioner) v Umair Hanif Ghanchi and Others (Respondents) 2019 CLC 1311 Sindh is an early example of the High Court of Sindh grappling with the issues connected to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abduction, Children, Dubai, Family Court, Hague Convention, International Law, Interpol, Islam, Karachi, Pakistan, Spouses
Tagged Case Law, Children, Hague Convention, Interpol, Pakistan, Sindh High Court, Spouses
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Court of Appeal clarifies asylum bars in child abduction cases
G (A Child: Child Abduction) [2020] EWCA Civ 1185 (15 September 2020) The Court of Appeal has held that Lieven J (the High Court Judge) had been wrong to stay proceedings on the basis that there was a bar to … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Asylum, Child Abduction, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Families, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, High Court, Immigration Rules, International Law, Lady Hale, Pakistan, Refugee Convention, Removals, South Africa, Spouses, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Asylum, Brexit, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, Dependants, ECHR, Pakistan, Persecution, Spouses, UK Supreme Court
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How do Pakistani courts approach child abduction cases?
What can be said about the approach taken by the Pakistani courts in child abduction cases? Little is known about this topic and of course since Pakistan is a new entrant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of … Continue reading
US accepts Pakistan’s accession to the Hague Convention
On 22 December 2016, Pakistan deposited its instrument of accession in relation to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980. This made Pakistan the 96th Contracting State to the Convention which entered into force for Pakistan … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abduction, Children, Family Court, Guardianship, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, International Law, Lady Hale, Pakistan, UKSC, USSC
Tagged Case Law, Child Abduction, Children, Habitual Residence, Hague Convention, Pakistan, Spouses, UK Supreme Court, United States
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Court of Appeal: Substance not form grounds a family life
Uddin v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 338 (12 March 2020) Sir Ernest Ryder and Bean and King LJJ have held that dependency, in the strict sense provided for in Kugathas [2003] EWCA Civ 31, … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Bangladesh, Child Abduction, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Families, Human Rights Act, Human Trafficking, Immigration Rules, Judges, Sedley LJ, Tribunals
Tagged Article 8, Case Law, Children, Court of Appeal, ECHR, Foster Care, Kugathas, Tribunals, UK Supreme Court
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Pakistan and the Child Abduction Convention
Pakistan is notorious for child abduction. The UK has a large and vibrant British-Pakistani community of more than a million people making it the largest Pakistani population in Europe. On 22 December 2016, Pakistan deposited its instrument of accession to … Continue reading
Posted in Child Abduction, Children, Hague Convention, Human Rights, Pakistan, Women
Tagged Brexit, Children, Constitution, European Union, Pakistan, Spouses, Supreme Court of Pakistan
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