Family Law symposium brings together international experts
An international Family Law symposium focusing on inter-country child removal issues will be held at India International Centre in Delhi Monday 13 May.
Participants include British Deputy High Commissioner to India Mr Julian Evans; Head of International Family Justice for England and Wales Lord Justice Mathew Thorpe; Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Diana Bryant; Former Attorney General of India Mr Soli Sorabjee and Justice Vikramjit Sen, Supreme Court of India.
The distinguished panel will bring together experts from a wide range of institutions such as Office of Children’s Issues, US State Department; Hague Permanent Bureau; National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights; National Judicial Academy; National Commission for Protection of Child Rights; Reunite International; National Law School of India and senior practitioners.
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The first legal text book on surrogacy “Surrogacy in India: A Law in the Making” by Anil & Ranjit Malhotra, Chandigarh-based international lawyers, will be launched at the symposium.
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Given increased international mobility, there has been a steady rise in cross-border parental child removal cases. Last year India was second* only to Pakistan as a destination for children removed from the UK by one parent against the wishes of the other.
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At present there is no international treaty between India and the rest of the world to provide a mechanism for swift resolution of child removal cases. Parents often have to initiate court cases in both countries which can be an expensive and lengthy process.
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The 1980 Hague Convention is an agreement between 89 countries** which aims to return the abducted child to the country he/she normally lives in so that custody issues can be decided by the courts of that country.
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For further detail please email Upendra Singh or call on 9871423233.
(*Source: FCO figure based on the number of cases in which consular assistance was offered)
(** Source: The World Organisation for Cross Border Co-operation in Civil and Commercial matters)
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