Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 26928

Abduction: Children

Tabled: 28 January 2025

Answered: 4 February 2025

Named Day

Question

Lisa Smart

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

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones

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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