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Child abduction definition

What does Child abduction mean? In legal practice, child abduction describes the wrongful removal or wrongful retention of a child from the care or control of a person with parental responsibility/parental responsibilities and rights, or under a custody/child arrangements order, without the necessary consent or a court order. It includes taking or keeping a child out of the jurisdiction. The term is used across family and criminal law. In England & Wales and Northern Ireland, parental and non-parental child abduction offences are principally created by the Child Abduction Act 1984 and the Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985. In Scotland, parental child abduction...

1980 Hague Convention child abduction: evidence, practice, case management, without notice relief, and post-order remedies (England and Wales)

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Practice Note

This Practice Note outlines the evidential material required for an application under the Hague Convention on the Civil International Aspects of Child abduction 1980 (the 1980 Hague Convention), and explains the possible directions the court may give, together with the practice and procedure for both without notice applications and applications on notice. Its main focus is proceedings under the 1980 Hague Convention, but it also offers guidance on wider international child abduction proceedings, including those under the 1996 Hague Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children (the 1996 Hague Convention). It further sets out the Requirements for withdrawing an application, striking out or summary dismissal, and for variation and setting aside. See also Practice Notes: Child abduction—introduction and issuing proceedings (1980 Hague Convention) and Child abduction—1996 Hague Convention...

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