What happens if my child has been abducted from Scotland to the EU?
31st May 2016
John West took part in the recently completed research project on the ‘Conflicts of EU Courts on Child Abduction’ conducted by the Centre for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with the University of Sussex and funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The working paper by Professor Paul Beaumont, Dr Lara Walker and Jayne Holliday can be found here.
The project looked at the approach adopted by courts across the EU when a non-return order is granted by the destination state in terms of the Article 13 of The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980.
Members of the SKO team are regularly instructed in international child abduction proceedings and so we were able to provide researchers with practical information about the approach taken in Scotland. For more information, please contact John West or Stephanie Smith.
