Judge says family litigation 'stymied any meaningful focus' on children

A High Court judge in the family division has criticised ‘litigious’ Hague Convention proceedings which ‘effectively suspended proper cooperation between the parties’.

Mr Justice Peel said the determination of the Hague application in Z v Z had shifted the focus on the children’s welfare interests in a case centred on a father, identified as F, who applied for the return of his three children from England to British Colombia, Canada.

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