Hague Convention
[2015] IESC 12 British mother in Ireland v French father in France.
[2016] EWHC 2535 Norwegian mother claimed to be a victim of parental alienation by British father. Father’s barrister was Lucy Reed.
20 May 2016
Judge: Alison Russell
[2021] EWHC 2688 (Fam) Re K and M (Children) (Abduction: Grave risk: Intentional Car Crash)
14 September 2021
Judge: Richard Harrison
Transfer of residence from mother in England to father in Hungary under the Hague Convention. The Hungarian authorities had found the mother’s allegations of child sexual abuse to be unfounded, and the English authorities agreed.
[2022] NIFam 27 reported in Irish Legal News.
Court of Appeal video archive Re: B (a child)
8 September 2022
Judge: Paul Bowen KC.
This is an unusually sensitive judgment that properly analyses and recognises coercive control.
Paul Bowen assisted Louise Tickle in the making of the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary “Torn Apart”.
A v B (Abduction: Article 13(b) and Child Objections) [2023] EWHC 699 (Fam)
13b failed.
27 July 2023
Judge: Paul Bowen KC
Mother wanted to relocate to Germany. Father wanted a transfer of residence to him and his new partner and three younger children or into foster care on the grounds of parental alienation. Judge dismissed allegation of parental alienation, refused to allow a psychological assessment, and allowed mother and daughter to move to Germany.
[2023] EWHC 2162 (Fam) Re B (A Child) (Consent; Acquiescence; Intolerability)
[2023] EWCA Civ 1047 Re D (A Child) (Abduction: Child's Objections: Representation of Child Party). Analysis of James Netto’s involvement.
Judge: Frances Judd
30 November 2023
Application by three members of the press, Simon Israel, Hannah Summers and Suzanne Martin, for a transparency order for permission to report.
In 2020 Judge Clayton had ordered a transfer of residence from the mother to the father after the mother was found to have repeatedly obstructed contact. This was upheld by Judge Gwynneth Knowles. In 2020 the mother abducted the daughter to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is not a party to the Hague Convention. She has refused multiple orders to return to the UK and has made serious allegations of child sexual abuse against the father. The maternal grandfather was jailed for 18 months for assisting her.
Inside one family court battle over a child now settled in Northern Cyprus, Simon Israel, Channel 4 News, 22 February 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office guidance: The north of Cyprus: parental child abduction, 24 July 2023
Re: TJK (Abduction: Hague Convention (Italy)) [2024] EWHC 198 (Fam)
Judge Paul Bowen KC allowed 13b exception under Hague Convention.
AB and BC (Children) [2020] EWHC 162 (Fam)
This is not a Hague case, but it is a dispute about whether two Spanish children should live with their Spanish father in Spain or their Spanish mother in England.