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Join a webinar with Dr Nazia Yaqub ,University of Leeds.
The focus of this seminar is on the practical application and the challenges of the Private International Law treaty, the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention and the research findings of Dr Yaqub’s study, published in her book, Parental Child Abduction to Islamic Law Countries. The legal framework addressing the phenomenon of cross-border parental child abduction disputes will be explored, in the context of the empirical study in which Dr Yaqub interviewed young people in the abduction situation.
Very few Islamic law countries have acceded to the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention and in 2016, for the first time ever, the UK entered into Hague Convention treaty obligations with an Islamic law country when it accepted Morocco’s accession to the Hague Convention. The development presents an ideal opportunity in which to evaluate whether other Islamic law countries should accede to the Hague Convention, in order to advance children’s rights. The legal development with Morocco also necessitates analysis of how the English courts will reciprocate the return of abducted children to the jurisdiction of Morocco’s Islamic (sharia) law courts, in light of the differences between English and Islamic custody law.
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- Dr Nazia Yaqub , University of Leeds
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