| Heading: |
Abduction: Children |
| Question ID: |
1759330 |
| UIN: |
26928 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5070 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lisa Smart
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Lisa Smart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Article 13(b) of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, what steps she is taking to ensure the definition in UK law of "grave risk of harm |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-04 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4849 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Davies-Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexDaviesJones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexDaviesJones
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| Answer text: |
There is no legal definition of “grave risk of harm” in England and Wales. In the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention court cases about the return of a child where one of the parties seeks to demonstrate there is a grave risk of harm under Article 13(b)... |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |