Update Hague Family Law Conventions
The Hague Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children was recently ratified by various EU Member States, namely: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Romania and Spain. The Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the...
Publication of the Guide to Good Practice under the Child Abduction Convention: Part IV - Enforcement
It is with great pleasure that the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law announces the publication of Part IV of the Guide to Good Practice under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction - Enforcement. This Guide is based upon the principles of good practice presented to, and supported by, the Fifth Meeting...
Morocco accedes to two Hague Conventions
On 26 April 2010, Morocco deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Convention of 4 May 1971 on the Law Applicable to Traffic Accidents. The Convention will enter into force for Morocco on 25 June 2010. Earlier this year, on 9 March, Morocco acceded to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. This accession has already been...
The NEW INCADAT was launched on 30 April 2010
A new version of the International Child Abduction Database - INCADAT - was launched on 30 April 2010. The new INCADAT website gives access to a completely revised and modernised database of case-law under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention. The various improvements for the INCADAT users include: more user-friendly website navigation, enhanced functionality of the case law search as well as...
International Judicial Conference on Cross-Border Family Relocation
Hague Child Abduction Convention soon to be in force for Morocco (Press Release)
PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION - MOROCCO JOINS THE HAGUE CONVENTION The Hague Conference is pleased to receive advice that Morocco has acceded to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Morocco is the eighty-second State to become a Party to the 1980 Hague Convention and is the first North African State to do so....
African Governments urged to adopt Hague Conventions on Children
High officials, judges and other experts from States in the Southern and Eastern African Region call for closer inter-State co-operation to protect vulnerable children in cross-frontier situations, and support implementation of the Hague Children's Conventions and the Apostille Convention The Seminar on Cross-Frontier Child Protection in the Southern and Eastern African Region was held from 22 to...
States strengthen co-operation on international child support
Press release Representatives from over 50 States and the European Community have agreed on a number of practical measures and principles to promote and implement a new Convention on the recovery of international child support. The Special Commission of States, which concluded in The Hague today, heard that the European Community, as well as a number of States such as the...
Third Malta Conference on Cross-Frontier Family Law Issues
Third Malta Judicial Conference on Cross-Frontier Family Law Issues, hosted by the Government of Malta in collaboration with the Hague Conference on Private International Law St. Julian’s (Malta), 24-26 March 2009 Purpose of the Conference The Conference continued the process of dialogue that began with the first (14-17 March 2004) and second (19-22 March 2006) Malta Conferences,...
10th anniversary of International Network of Judges for International Child Protection
A small celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of the International Hague Network of Judges was held in Brussels on Friday 16 January 2009. The creation of an international network of judges for international child protection was first proposed at the 1998 De Ruwenberg Seminar for Judges on the international protection of children. The International Hague Network of Judges facilitates...