International children: Across the seas

Dorothea Gartland and Maria Wright provide a guide to inter-country placements of children and the assessment of potential long-term carers At the heart of cases where overseas kinship placements are contemplated is a delicate balance of rights, ensuring that children are afforded the right to live with extended family overseas where this is possible, but …
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Child abduction: No place like home

Kayleigh Biswas analyses the circumstances in which a return order may be made despite the left-behind parent’s agreement to a relocation ‘Establishing one of the exceptions to the 1980 Convention opens the door to the court’s exercise of discretion as to whether or not to return a child.’ The judgment in TY v HY [2019] …
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