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Many debates around parental responsibility concern fathers and second parents. By way of example, should the law permit a married father to be deprived of his parental responsibility where he…
Ruth Cabeza was instructed by Carolina Marín Pedreño, Dawson Cornwell on behalf of the Applicant father in J & H (Jurisdiction: 1996 Hague Convention : residual domestic jurisdiction: parental responsibility jurisdiction),…
Edward Devereux KC and Professor Rob George, instructed by Field Seymour Parkes Solicitors, successfully appealed a decision of the High Court concerning the jurisdiction of the courts in relation to…
Edward Bennett, instructed by Goodman Ray, represented the successful Appellant father in N & A (1996 Hague Convention: Article 13) [2023] EWCA Civ 623, an appeal from an order relating…
The case is the first appeal to the Supreme Court involving the 1996 Hague Convention on Child Protection. The issue is whether the Convention permits the English Court to order…