Cass Civ 1?re (pourvoi n? 05-14646 )

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Challenge dismissed; the Cour d’Appel had been correct in finding that none of the exceptions had been proved to the standard required under the Convention.

Sabeahat v. Sabihat FS-18-0099

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Interpretation of the Convention The taking parent bears the evidentiary burden to satisfy the court that the circumstances of the case qualify under Article 13(1)(b) or Article 20 as an exception. However, in the evidence called at the hearing of the mother’s application for refugee status, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) found […]

Farsi v. Da Rocha, 2020 ONCA 92

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The parents met in 2017 in Canada. The mother is a French citizen and the father a Portuguese citizen and permanent resident of Canada. They had a child in 2018, born in Toronto, where they lived together as a family until October 2018, when the child was six months old. At that time, her mother […]