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Table of contents
Welcome and opening remarks
- Professor Marilyn Freeman, Co-Director, International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice, and Principal Research Fellow, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, London, England
- Mr Philippe Lortie, First Secretary at the Hague Conference on Private International Law
- Mrs Ewa Kopacz, Vice-President of The European Parliament and The European Parliament Coordinator on Children’s Rights
Session 1 – Abduction and Asylum Issues
- Introduction by Session Chairperson Nuala Mole, The Aire Centre
- Child Abduction and Asylum, Julia Zelvenska, Head of Legal Support and Litigation (European Council on Refugees and Exiles)
- Reflections on the relationship between asylum and international child abduction, Henry Setright KC and James Turner KC
Session 2 - Abduction and Domestic Violence Issues
- Introduction by Session Chairperson Professor Merle Weiner, Philip H. Knight Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon, USA
- Abduction and Domestic Abuse: A Judicial Perspective from England and Wales, Lord Justice Andrew Moylan, Court of Appeal, Head of International Family Justice and Hague Network Judge for England and Wales
- The Interface Between Domestic Violence and International Parental Child Abduction: Focus on the Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings, Professor Katarina Trimmings
- Mediation in Child Abduction Cases with Domestic Violence, Ischtar Khalaf-Newsome
- Project to investigate the effects and outcomes of abduction where the abduction is alleged to have occurred against a background of violence or abuse to the taking parent and/or the abducted child: Initial Observations, Professor Marilyn Freeman, Co-Director, International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice, and Principal Research Fellow, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, London, England
Session 3 - Abduction and Child Participation Issues
- Introduction by Session Chairperson Professor Rhona Schuz, Centre for the Rights of the Child and the Family, Sha'arei Mishpat Law School, Israel
- Hearing the Child in the Context of the 1980 Hague Convention, Professor Nicola Taylor, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Child Participation in Abduction Cases, Stephen Cullen
- ‘Child Participation’ in Japan, Professor Yuko Nishitani
- Return proceedings in Australia under the 1980 Convention and Child Participation Issues, The Honourable Justice Victoria Bennett AO
- Conclusions by the Meeting Chairman, Mr Philippe Lortie