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Consent - Art. 13(1)(a) | Procedural Matters

Return refused

Return refused; there had been a wrongful retention but there was sufficient evidence to indicate consent on the part of the applicant father.

Acquiescence - Art. 13(1)(a)

Appeal dismissed, return ordered

Appeal dismissed and return ordered; the father's delay in applying under the Convention was found to have been reasonable and was therefore not sufficient to show that he had acquiesced in the retention of the children.

Habitual Residence - Art. 3 | Rights of Custody - Art. 3

Appeal dismissed, return refused

The father's appeal was dismissed; there was no reason to order the return of the child since he had been taken to the State of his habitual residence.

Acquiescence - Art. 13(1)(a)

Return ordered

Return ordered; the father had not acquiesced in the retention of the children.

Removal and Retention - Arts 3 and 12 | Acquiescence - Art. 13(1)(a) | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b)

Return ordered subject to undertakings

Return ordered with an undertaking required; neither Article 13(1)(a) nor Article 13(1)(b) had been proved to the standard required under the Convention.

Aims of the Convention - Preamble, Arts 1 and 2 | Habitual Residence - Art. 3 | Removal and Retention - Arts 3 and 12 | Rights of Custody - Art. 3 | Acquiescence - Art. 13(1)(a) | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b) | Procedural Matters | Consent - Art. 13(1)(a)

Appeal allowed, return ordered

Appeal allowed, return ordered.

Human Rights - Art. 20

Unanimous: appeal inadmissible; the issues relating to the consistency of the 1980 Convention with the Constitution had been resolved in an earlier case, and admissibility of the appeal was not necessary for the enforcement of fundamental rights.

Rights of Custody - Art. 3 | Objections of the Child to a Return - Art. 13(2)

Return refused

Return refused; the retention was wrongful, being in breach of the mother's rights of custody, but the child had valid objections to a return.

Removal and Retention - Arts 3 and 12 | Rights of Custody - Art. 3 | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b) | Objections of the Child to a Return - Art. 13(2)

Return ordered

Return ordered; the retention was wrongful and none of the exceptions had been proved to the standard required under the Convention.

Aims of the Convention - Preamble, Arts 1 and 2 | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b) | Issues Relating to Return

Appeal dismissed, return ordered

Appeal dismissed and return ordered, subject to a one-week delay; the removal was wrongful and none of the exceptions had been proved to the standard required under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention.

Consent - Art. 13(1)(a) | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b)

Return ordered

Removal wrongful and return ordered; none of the exceptions under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention had been proved to the standards required.

European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) | Procedural Matters

The Chamber unanimously held that there had been a violation of Article 8 of the ECHR in regard to the protracted custody proceedings, but by five votes to two that there had been no violation of Art 8 in regard to the domestic courts' assessment of the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention return petition. Damages were awarded to the applicant.

European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) | Issues Relating to Return | Procedural Matters

The European Court of Human Rights held by six votes to one that there had been a violation of Article 8 of the ECHR on account of the Italian courts' order for the child to be returned to Italy; and unanimously that there had been no violation of Article 8 on account of the mother's absence from the hearing of the Rome Youth Court. Damages were awarded to mother and child.

Removal and Retention - Arts 3 and 12 | Objections of the Child to a Return - Art. 13(2) | Procedural Matters | Habitual Residence - Art. 3 | Consent - Art. 13(1)(a) | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b)

Return refused

Aims of the Convention - Preamble, Arts 1 and 2 | Settlement of the Child - Art. 12(2)

Appeal allowed, application dismissed

Acquiescence - Art. 13(1)(a)

Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b) | Procedural Matters

Appeal allowed, return ordered

Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b) | Objections of the Child to a Return - Art. 13(2) | Settlement of the Child - Art. 12(2) | Human Rights - Art. 20

Appeal allowed, return refused

Appeal allowed and return order refused; removal wrongful but the children had become settled in their new environment and objected to a return, with the Court exercising its discretion not to make a return order.

Removal and Retention - Arts 3 and 12 | Acquiescence - Art. 13(1)(a) | Settlement of the Child - Art. 12(2)

Appeal dismissed, return ordered

Appeal dismissed and return ordered; the removal was wrongful and even if a year had elapsed for the purposes of Article 12 the child was not settled in his new environment and none of the other exceptions had been established.

Removal and Retention - Arts 3 and 12 | Acquiescence - Art. 13(1)(a) | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b) | Settlement of the Child - Art. 12(2) | Human Rights - Art. 20

Appeal allowed, return ordered