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Tag 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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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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Hague Convention: Supreme Court Confirms the Concept of ‘Repudiatory Retention’ in Child Abduction Cases
Re C (Children)(Abduction: Rights of Custody)[2018] UKSC 8 (14 February 2018) Turning on the controversial subject of child abduction, this case divided the Supreme Court on the outcome on the facts. But otherwise, the Justices concurred on key points of principle … Continue reading
Children and Conflicts between Courts
In the Matter of S (a Child) [2012] UKSC 10 (14 March 2012) This case is about a relationship which became sour. A two-year old child, “W”, was involved and the UK Supreme Court unanimously declined to return the child to Australia … Continue reading
Posted in Article 8, Children, ECHR, Hague Convention, UKSC
Tagged Article 8, Australia, Case Law, Child Abduction, Strasbourg, UK Supreme Court
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