Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 67730

Domestic Abuse

Tabled: 14 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

Liberal DemocratNewbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that cases involving domestic abuse are assessed under the grave risk exception of Article 13(b) of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child A

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones
The Government is aware of concerns around the operation of the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention in situations where there are allegations of domestic abuse.Published judgments demonstrate that courts in the UK take into account domestic abuse when a...

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