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Lexology
March 29, 2018
In addition, the UK Government's 22 August 2017 paper confirms the UK's intention to continue to participate in those Hague Conventions which it currently participates in by virtue of its membership of the EU (such as the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005). Similarly the UK intends toÃÂ ...
AZERTAC News
March 28, 2018
The spokesman described such acts by Armenia as a gross violation of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict adopted and the Convention's II Protocol adopted in 1999. Hajiyev noted that Armenia bears international legal responsibility for the actsÃÂ ...
Lexology
March 28, 2018
The Fifth Circuit also rejected Gotech's argument that Nagravision failed to effect proper service because Nagravision did not serve Gotech through the Hague Convention. The Court found that Nagravision properly served Gotech by court-ordered email under Rule 4(f)(3)—a court-ordered service notÃÂ ...
ITCM
March 21, 2018
The proactive approach of The Hague Convention Bureau (THCB) and its strong collaboration with an outstanding network of partners has boosted the city's reputation as a highly desirable destination. In 2017, THCB's experience and expertise in building a case has brought 47 conferences to The Hague,ÃÂ ...
The Japan News
March 16, 2018
The Yomiuri ShimbunIn the first ruling of its kind in Japan, the Supreme Court has decided that refusing to return a child despite an order based on the Hague Convention (see clip) is “tantamount to illegal confinement” of that child. Since Japan joined the convention in 2014, a number of parents haveÃÂ ...
The Mainichi
March 16, 2018
Professor Kazuhiko Yamamoto of Hitotsubashi University, who is an expert on the procedures of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, says, "As a result of the (Supreme Court's) ruling, it can be expected that the parents' custody battle will be resolved early throughÃÂ ...
Kyodo News Plus
March 15, 2018
The top court made the first decision on cases in which the return of a child has yet to take place despite a finalized Japanese court order to take the child back based on the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Supreme Court's First Petty Branch said it seesÃÂ ...
Lexology
March 9, 2018
In this case, the Hague Convention applied and, following a review of prior (and conflicting) caselaw, the judge characterised the position as follows: "in my view there is some difference of emphasis in the authorities between, on the one hand, those which incline towards the language of exceptional orÃÂ ...
The Costa Rica Star
March 9, 2018
In 2011, Costa Rica became part of the The Hague Convention from 1961, by ratifying law #8923. Under the Convention, foreigners living in a country that is part of The Hague Convention can grant a Special or Judicial Power of Attorney by preparing it in their country, having the signature notarized, thenÃÂ ...
Lexology
March 8, 2018
... (which applies between EU member states, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland) and would also participate in the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005 (which currently applies between EU member states, Mexico and Singapore where there is an exclusive choice of court agreement).
The Gander Beacon
March 8, 2018
A presentation at the Rooms on Thursday, March 8, will shed light on their experiences, using first-person narratives, family letters, photographs, and post-war claims for pensions and reparations. The presentation will also explore the international legal status of POWs under The Hague Conventions.
Imperial Valley News
March 7, 2018
Washington, DC - On March 1, the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction entered into force between the United States and Armenia. The United States now has 77 partners under the Convention. The Convention provides a civil law mechanism for parents seeking theÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
March 7, 2018
The Nama and Ovaherero have over the years implored the German government to take center stage so that discussions can start, in conformity with global conventions, specifically the Rome Statutes and the Hague Conventions, to which Germany is signatory and which conventions guide the handling ofÃÂ ...
Lexology
March 7, 2018
If the English courts do not have jurisdiction to hear the claim by reason of the Brussels/Lugano Regime, the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 or the Hague Convention, and there is no alternative way of serving within the jurisdiction (for example on the overseas principal's agent), serving aÃÂ ...
The Japan News
March 7, 2018
The Hague Convention went into effect in April 2014. According to the Foreign Ministry, from then until January this year, there have been 23 cases in which courts have ordered, through a trial, the return of children to states where they have their habitual residence. Of these cases, implementation by proxyÃÂ ...
The Bellingham Herald
March 3, 2018
... limitation or suspension of economic support — to pressure foreign governments to send home abducted American children. In its 2017 report on international child abduction, the State Department said that Brazil in 2016 demonstrated a pattern of noncompliance to the Hague Convention child abductionÃÂ ...
The Times
March 2, 2018
The whole point of the scheme adopted under the Hague Convention was to leave the merits to be decided by the courts of the place of the child's habitual residence. If, however, the child had by the time of the act relied on as wrongful become habitually resident in the requested state, then that state wouldÃÂ ...
Chico Enterprise-Record
March 1, 2018
Brann's attorneys said they are appealing a ruling in 2015 by a Brazilian judge that denied the boy's return to the U.S. under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty for governmental cooperation on such cases. Authorities allege Carlos andÃÂ ...
Gold Coast Bulletin
February 24, 2018
The legal implications of The Hague Convention had a profound impact on the sisters after they moved to California where Rebecca married a Mexican national. In 2011, the couple had a baby boy and shortly after his birth, Rebecca's husband became abusive. In 2013, Gina, who was at that time workingÃÂ ...
Hanford Sentinel
February 9, 2018
Officials said the mother of the children contacted the Kings County District Attorney's Child Abduction Unit for assistance, and the unit prepared a case to be submitted to Mexico under The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty. After receiving theÃÂ ...
Family Law Week
February 9, 2018
On 27 July 2016, by which time the mother and children had not returned to Australia, the father commenced proceedings under the 1980 Hague Convention. The father alleged that the mother had wrongfully retained the children in England. The mother argued that her retention of the children in EnglandÃÂ ...
Family Law Week
February 4, 2018
Availability of Legal Aid for Applications Pursuant to the 1996 Hague Convention. Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE QC (Hon), Partner, Dawson Cornwell, and Michael Gration, Barrister, 4 Paper Buildings, highlight an oversight in LASPO. Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE, QC (Hon), Dawson Cornwell. MichaelÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
January 4, 2018
... ratified Hague Convention on 22nd December 2016, with these understandings and a sense of responsibility that these Hague Children's Conventions are designed to for a global reach to be compatible with diverse legal traditions. Pakistan is now a contracting state to two Hague Conventions, the otherÃÂ ...
Economic Times
September 23, 2017
At the annual US-India consular dialogue coming up on September 27 at Washington, DC, the US government will push the Indian side to accede to the Hague Convention. “Protection and welfare of American citizens overseas is one of the issues that we address. Cases where, following the break-up of aÃÂ ...
Lexology
December 31, 1999
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Parental Child Abduction 1980 (commonly known as “The Hague Convention”) is upheld and enforced in many counties including (and not limited to) Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. If you choose not toÃÂ ...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
Christopher Brann's attorneys said they are appealing a ruling in 2015 by a Brazilian judge that denied the boy's return to the U.S. under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty for governmental cooperation on such cases. Nico Brann's case is oneÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
December 31, 1999
... limitation or suspension of economic support — to pressure foreign governments to send home abducted American children. In its 2017 report on international child abduction, the State Department said that Brazil in 2016 demonstrated a pattern of noncompliance to the Hague Convention child abductionÃÂ ...
Caboolture News
December 31, 1999
The legal implications of The Hague Convention had a profound impact on the sisters after they moved to California where Rebecca married a Mexican national. In 2011, the couple had a baby boy and shortly after his birth, Rebecca's husband became abusive. In 2013, Gina, who was at that time workingÃÂ ...
TSNN Trade Show News
December 31, 1999
Nicole Brecht, who represents The Hague Convention Bureau, said The Hague, too, has several venues available for local and international meetings and events, including the WTC and World Forum. “The World Forum is the oldest (meetings) building,” Brecht said, adding that it has a large auditorium andÃÂ ...
Jordan Times
February 26, 2018
It starts as early as 1868 at the time of the St Petersburg Declaration and then goes to the Hague Convention of 1899 signed to prevent the use of chemical weapons in war. I was waiting with anticipation to read the part about the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. It was not what I thoughtÃÂ ...
Whitsunday Times
February 24, 2018
The legal implications of The Hague Convention had a profound impact on the sisters after they moved to California where Rebecca married a Mexican national. In 2011, the couple had a baby boy and shortly after his birth, Rebecca's husband became abusive. In 2013, Gina, who was at that time workingÃÂ ...
Gold Coast Bulletin
February 24, 2018
The legal implications of The Hague Convention had a profound impact on the sisters after they moved to California where Rebecca married a Mexican national. In 2011, the couple had a baby boy and shortly after his birth, Rebecca's husband became abusive. In 2013, Gina, who was at that time workingÃÂ ...
Hanford Sentinel
February 9, 2018
Officials said the mother of the children contacted the Kings County District Attorney's Child Abduction Unit for assistance, and the unit prepared a case to be submitted to Mexico under The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty. After receiving theÃÂ ...
Family Law Week
February 9, 2018
On 27 July 2016, by which time the mother and children had not returned to Australia, the father commenced proceedings under the 1980 Hague Convention. The father alleged that the mother had wrongfully retained the children in England. The mother argued that her retention of the children in EnglandÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
February 9, 2018
She cited the example of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which helps parents whose children are taken from them to another country in breach of their custody rights. "If that country is a party to this convention, like Singapore is, the country must give theÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 9, 2018
Close to 100 countries, including Canada, have signed on to the 1980 Hague Convention, a multilateral pact that has carved out a path to handle cases of child abduction. Lebanon has not signed onto the agreement. "Child abductions to countries that do not apply to the Hague Convention with CanadaÃÂ ...
CT Post
February 8, 2018
Carlos Guimaraes is president of ED&F Man Brasil, a commodities trading firm. Brann's attorneys said they are appealing a ruling in 2015 by a Brazilian judge that denied the boy's return to the U.S. under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty forÃÂ ...
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide
February 1, 2018
On 12 Sep 2017, the Chinese Ambassador to The Netherlands signed The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements (the “Convention”) on behalf of the government of the People's Republic of China. Drafting of the Convention was concluded at the Hague Conference on Private International LawÃÂ ...
Jacksonville Daily Record
February 1, 2018
Filed on Morales Howard's docket is a verified petition pursuant to The Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“the Hague Convention”), Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11670, as implemented by the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, 42 U.S.C. ç 11601, et seq. The petition isà...
Mondaq News Alerts
January 17, 2018
The petitioner (the minor child's father) contended that the allegations of psychological abuse were not significant enough to show a grave risk of harm under the Hague Convention, which is the standard the respondent had to meet in order to keep her minor child from being returned. While the district courtÃÂ ...
VietNamNet Bridge
January 17, 2018
The PM has approved the preparation plan for joining the Hague Convention 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in the 2018-2021 period. Accordingly, from 2018-2020, the Ministry of Justice will review and evaluate the suitability between regulations of the Convention and VietÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
January 5, 2018
... ratified Hague Convention on 22nd December 2016, with these understandings and a sense of responsibility that these Hague Children's Conventions are designed to for a global reach to be compatible with diverse legal traditions. Pakistan is now a contracting state to two Hague Conventions, the otherÃÂ ...
The Lawyer's Daily
January 2, 2018
The father applied for return of the children pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The mother alleged that the children had no habitual residence due to the family's nomadic lifestyle. She further alleged that the children's return to Tennessee would exposeÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
December 29, 2017
Additionally, the children refused to return to the United States. Japan joined the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in April 2014. The Hague treaty sets out rules and procedures for promptly returning children under 16 taken or retained by one parent as a result ofÃÂ ...
Neos Kosmos
December 20, 2017
The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is a multilateral treaty in force between Australia and a number of other countries. It stands as the main international agreement that covers international parental child abduction; the the main legal process available toÃÂ ...
Apollo Magazine
December 12, 2017
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property comes into force in the UK | The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has come into force in UK law. The convention, created following the widespread destruction and appropriation of culturalÃÂ ...
Moneycontrol.com
October 24, 2017
Eminent jurist and former Attorney-General of India Soli Sorabjee said that India should join the Hague Convention dealing with inter-parental child abduction, which has been signed by over 90 countries globally. The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, signed on OctoberÃÂ ...
Economic Times
September 23, 2017
According to the Hague Convention, such abduction may occur when a parent removes a child from his or her country of habitual residence in violation of the other parent's custodial rights, even in cases where the parents are married or neither parent holds a custody decree prior to the abduction.
Economic Times
September 14, 2017
We will focus on this issue of international parental child abduction in a big way and hope that India will acceded to the Hague Convention of which 96 countries, including the US, are already signatories,” a senior US official said in Delhi on Thursday. There are currently 94 such cases of child abductionÃÂ ...
Expatica Switzerland
December 31, 1999
“We consider the Hague Convention to be a positive thing,” said Karin Meierhofer, who runs Pach. “As far as we know the Convention has really curbed child trafficking,” But we don't really know how the children are being treated in their home countries, she said. “They probably end up in a badly run homeÃÂ ...
