Research Handbook on International Child Abduction

Edited by Marilyn Freeman, Principal Research Fellow, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, UK and Nicola Taylor, Director of the Children's Issues Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand

Contents:

Foreword xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Spelling, reference or style conventions xx
List of abbreviations xxi

PART I INTRODUCTION AND KEY THEMES
1 Introduction and key themes 2
Nicola Taylor and Marilyn Freeman

PART II THE IMPACTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION
2 Long-term reflections of a former milk carton kid 19
Sarah Cecilie Finkelstein Waters
3 Ghosts in our genes: Psychological issues in child abduction and high
conflict cases 30
Sarah Calvert

PART III THE 1980 HAGUE CONVENTION – HISTORY AND
LONGITUDINAL TRENDS
4 The global effort to deter parental kidnapping: A history of the Hague
Child Abduction Convention 47
Linda Elrod
5 The value and challenges of statistical studies looking at the operation
of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International
Child Abduction 63
Nigel Lowe and Victoria Stephens

PART IV THE 1980 HAGUE CONVENTION – IMPLEMENTATION
AND OPERATIONALISATION
6 The role of the Permanent Bureau in the operation of the HCCH 1980
Child Abduction Convention 80
Gérardine Goh Escolar
7 Fleeing for safety: Helping battered mothers and their children using
Article 13(1)(b) 97
Jeffrey Edleson, Sudha Shetty and Mary Fata
8 Child participation and the child objection exception 116
Rhona Schuz
9 Judicial activism: A 20-year evolution 132
Sir Mathew Thorpe

PART V INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION IN SELECTED
GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS
10 The European Court of Human Rights 150
Thalia Kruger and Sara Lembrechts
11 The Court of Justice of the European Union and international abduction
of children 164
Costanza Honorati
12 International child abduction in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and
the Pacific: Similarities and differences 180
Mark Henaghan, Christian Poland and Clement Kong
13 The 1980 Convention comes of age in the United States 192
Stephen Cullen and Kelly Powers
14 International child abduction in Asia 201
Yuko Nishitani
15 International child abduction in Africa 219
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
16 The Caribbean and international child abduction – this is my child:
catch me if you can! 233
Diahann Gordon Harrison

PART VI NON-HAGUE CONVENTION COUNTRIES
17 International child abduction and non-Hague Convention countries 245
Jeremy Morley
18 International child abduction in India 265
Anil Malhotra and Ranjit Malhotra

PART VII KEY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD
ABDUCTION AND HAGUE CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS
19 The CRC perspective in the context of international child abduction and
the 1980 Hague Convention 280
Ann Skelton
20 The continuing challenge of the 1980 Hague Convention – a judicial
perspective 299
The Honourable Mr Justice Alistair MacDonald
21 Legal perspective: Remedying international child abduction – the
impact of international developments upon the English legal approach 314
Henry Setright KC and Michael Gration KC
22 International child abduction from the perspective of a Central
Authority under the 1980 Hague Convention 332
Joëlle Schickel-Küng and Anna Claudia Alfieri
23 NGO/support services perspective: The importance of an independent
specialist centre on international family conflicts 346
Suzanne Labadie
24 Cross-border family mediation in parental child abduction cases 368
Ischtar Khalaf-Newsome

PART VIII REFLECTIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
25 Whither the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention? 388
Nigel Lowe KC (Hon)
26 Nurturing the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention 404
Marilyn Freeman and Nicola Taylor
430

Index