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iFLG sponsors major international children conference
The International Family Law Group is proud to be a major sponsor of a very crucial and important conference in June 2010 on international child abduction, child relocation and forced marriages.
The conference is being arranged by the London Metropolitan University. Speakers and delegates are coming from across the world. They include leading academics, practitioners and judges. The conference is vitally important: with the dramatic increase in the number of international families travelling for work and other reasons across national borders, there are now many children for whom the laws of more than one country may apply, and often applied very unsatisfactory. Child abduction is on the increase. There are still very many countries who are not signatories to the Hague convention. Child relocation, when one parent wants to move abroad with the child, is always traumatic for the child and the so-called left behind parent. Laws about allowing child relocation differ dramatically across the world. England has led the way globally in tackling the appalling hardships and distress of forced marriages involving young adults and sometimes teenage children. Many of these problems can only be resolved by global consensus and co-working.
David Hodson is chairing one of the sessions and Ann Thomas and Carolynn Usher are speakers.
Further details of the conference can be found at http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/lgir/centre-for-family-law-and-practice/inaugural-conference
Carolynn Usher commented “At iFLG, we undertake a significant amount of work looking after the interests of children of international families. There is much which can be accomplished for their best interests. Nevertheless there needs to be more co-operation worldwide and a better understanding of looking after the best interests of these international children. We are very pleased to be able to sponsor this conference and look forward hugely to the benefits it will provide for the future in this important area of family law.”
Posted on 14 December, 2009 by David Hodson
