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Culture, Dispute Resolutionand the Modernised Family

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Conference Programme (final)July 2016

Conference Venue:

Kings College,

London Waterloo Campus,

Franklin-Wilkins Building,

Stamford Street,

London SE1 9NH www.famlawandpractice.com

Patron: Baroness Hale of Richmond

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FORFAMILY LAW, POLICY

AND PRACTICEIN ASSOCIATION WITH KINGS COLLEGE LONDON


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Conference Rapporteurs:

Sir Peter Singer Formerly a High Court Judge of the Family Division, England and Wales

Edward Devereux Harcourt Chambers, London

Assistant Rapporteurs:

Oliver Woolley 1 Garden Court

Charlotte Trace 29 Bedford Row

Caroline Korah Dawson Cornwell

Kirsty Lea 7 Bedford Row

Samantha Jones 7 Bedford Row

Andrew Powell 4 Paper Buildings

James Netto Dawson Cornwell

Tom Beak Kingsley Napley

Student Ambassadors:

Adiba Bassam

Caterina Scarabello

Olivia Lewis

We are grateful to the charity Action Against Abduction(formerly PACT) and to Professor Glenn Gebhard, School of

Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angles,USA, for their assistance and support in showing the film

Sarah Cecelie to the delegates of our conference.


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Wednesday 6th July 2016

8.00 REGISTRATION

8.50 WELCOME AND CONFERENCE OPENING

Professor Marilyn Freeman, PhD, Co-Director, International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice

9.00 PLENARY SESSION

Chair: Sir Mathew Thorpe, formerly Head of International Family Justice, England and Wales

9.10 The Honourable Chief Justice Diana Bryant AO, Family Court of Australia

40 Years of Innovative Family Law

9.40 Judge Laurence Ryan, Principal Family Court Judge, New Zealand

One Judge, One Family The Future of Case Management?

10.10 Professor Mark Henaghan, University of Otago, New Zealand

New Zealand Relocation Decisions and International Proposals for Change

10.40 Professor Rollie Thompson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

The Relocation Presumptions Debate

11.10 MORNING BREAK

11.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION A

Chair: BarbaraConnolly QC,7 Bedford Row

SESSION B

Chair: ZenobiaDu Toit, Attorney,Miller Du ToitCloete, South Africa

SESSION C

Chair: DavidWilliams QC,4 Paper Buildings

SESSION D

Chair: SimonBlain, Partner,Penningtons

SESSION E

Chair: ProfessorPeter de Cruz,Liverpool JohnMoores University

Paper 1 Colin Rogerson,Solicitor, DawsonCornwell, London

Current Trends in UKSurrogacy Law andthe Case For Reform

Dr. Phil Stahl, ChildCustody Evaluator,Arizona, USA

Cognitive Bias TheGreatest Risk toObjectivity in ChildCustody Disputes

Associate ProfessorYehiel Kaplan,Faculty of Law,

University of HaifaCustody Rightsof Children inTheir Culture: TheSignificance ofReligious Law

Professor ThomasOldham, John H.Freeman Professor

of Law, Universityof Houston LawCenter Faculty

Why a New UniformEquitable Distribution

Jurisdiction Act IsNeeded to ReduceForum Shopping inU.S. Divorce Litigation

Professor SusanEdwards, Universityof Buckingham

Protecting Childrenand Vulnerable Adultsfrom Witchcraft andSpirit PossessionRelated Accusationsand Victimisation

Paper 2 Pamela Scriven QCand Andrea Watts,1 Kings Bench

ChambersThree Person Babiesand the future ofDonors in Family Law

Dr. Yoav Mazeh,Associate Professor,Faculty of Law, Ono

Academic College,Israel

Normalising Post-Divorce Parenthood:Using Damages to SetStandards for ParentalBehaviour

Dr. Merel Jonkerand AssociateProfessor Jet

Tigchelaar, UtrechtUniversity LawSchool

State Involvement inReligious Upbringing

Dr. Frances Burton,Co-Director,International

Centre for FamilyLaw, Policy andPractice

Still not Family?Cohabitants inEngland and Wales in2016

Associate ProfessorElisabeth GordingStang, Oslo and

Akershus UniversityCollege of AppliedSciences, Norway

Children in Prison The Norwegian ChildUnit

Paper 3 Dr. Monica Navarro-Michel, Universityof Barcelona

Lesbian Couples andKnown Donors. Are

Three Parents betterthan Two?

Dr. Maria Moscati,University of Sussex

Culture, Same-SexCouples and DisputeResolution

Thos Hodgson,Barrister, EdmundBarton Chambers,Sydney

The Rights of

Grandparents inParenting Proceedings:

An AustralianPerspective

Professor WendySchrama, UCERF,University ofUtrecht

Marriage and informal

cohabitation: towardsa care-based system?

Julien Foster,Barrister, 1 GardenCourt

Child Protection inPractice: Preserving

Culture, ChallengingPractices

1.00 LUNCH


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Chair: Professor Stephen Gilmore, Kings College, London

2.10 Professor Ann Estin, University of Iowa College of Law

Global Childhood

2.40 Professor Rhona Schuz, Co-Director of the Centre for the Rights of the Child, Shaarei Mishpat Law School, Israel

Ritual male circumcision a violation of childrens rights?

3.10 AFTERNOON BREAK


SESSION A

Chair: Anne-MarieHutchinson,OBE, QC, Partner,Dawson Cornwell

SESSION B

Chair: SirMathew Thorpe,formerly Head ofInternational FamilyJustice, England

SESSION C

Chair: Lilia Szarski.Clinical Supervisorand Trainer,Australia

SESSION D

Chair: PamelaScriven QC, 1 KingsBench Walk

SESSION E

Chair: ProfessorMarielle Bruning,Leiden University

Paper 1 Neelam Sarkaria,former Head ofCriminal Justice

Unit, CrownProsecutionService, andDetective ChiefSuperintendentGerry Campbell,Taskforce OCUCommander andDeputy PolicingLead for ForcedMarriage, HonourBased Violenceand Female Genital

MutilationSafeguarding Girls atRisk of FGM and otherHarmful TraditionalPractices

Dr. Lesley Allport,Lesley AllportDispute Resolution

(LADR), and ActingChair of ProfessionalStandardsCommittee ofCollege ofMediators

Justice or Just Us?An Exploration of theGovernment Initiativeto Encourage theResolution of DisputesOutside the CourtSystem

Denise Carter, OBE,Head of MediationServices,

InternationalFamily Law GroupLLP, Covent Garden,London

Is Mediation Treated asSecond Class Justice?

Professor Peterde Cruz, LiverpoolJohn Moores

UniversityParental Behaviour,Child Protectionand the Removal ofChildren from theirFamilies: Evaluatingthe Threshold for StateIntervention in 21stCentury Britain

Dr. Karin CarmitYefet, University ofHaifa

RethinkingFatherhood in Israel.Towards a new Child-Oriented Model

Paper 2 Teertha Gupta QC,4 Paper Buildings

FGM and ForcedMarriage LegalDeterrents

His Honour MichaelHorowitz QC,retired Circuit CourtJudge

The Inter-face betweenthe Arbitration Act1996 and the Instituteof Family Law

Arbitrators FinancialClaims Scheme

Mediating Cross-Border Family Conflict:Enhancing ResolutionThrough ParentingCoordination

Debra K. Carter,PhD, Clinical

and ForensicPsychologist,NationalCooperativeParenting Center,Florida, USA

Professor DouglasN. Frenkel, MorrisShuster PracticeProfessor of Law,University ofPennsylvania LawSchool

Professor ThaliaKruger, Universityof Antwerp, andCharlotte Mol, LegalResearch MastersStudent, Universityof Utrecht

The Best Interests ofAbducted Children:How Do Courts Know,Or Do They?

Professor OlgaKhazova, Instituteof State and Law,Moscow

The Best Interestsof the Child andModernised Family

Paper 3 Sulema Jahangir,Dawson Cornwell

Stranded Spouses

Rachael Kelsey,SKO FamilyLaw Specialists,Edinburgh, andSuzanne Kingston,Withers

Arbitration: The nextfrontier in disputeresolution in family

law: The use ofarbitration in childand financial cases, a

practical perspectivefrom the UK

Dr. Maire NiShuilleabhain,University CollegeDublin

Traversing DisciplinarySilos: Marriage, PrivateInternational Law andthe ECtHR

Dr. Machteld Vonk,University of LeidenLaw School

Childrens Rights inMulti-Parent Families:Developing a Child-Centred Approachto Family Life for theFuture



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Chair: Judge Mary ODwyer, Family Court, Wellington, New Zealand

5.10 Professor Judy Cashmore, Sydney Law School, and Dr. Nicola Ross, University of Newcastle Law School,Australia

Adoption Reforms in Australia: A Comparative Look

5.35 Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Ending Child Marriage: Initiatives from Southern Africa

6.00 END OF DAY

Welcome reception 7 Bedford Row. All are welcome to attend.6.45 8.30pm

Delegates are requested to wear their conference badges at the reception.

Dress Code: Lounge suit or smart-casual dress.



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Chair: The Honourable Chief Justice Diana Bryant AO, Family Court of Australia

9.10 Professor Patrick Parkinson, School of Law, University of Sydney The Future of Marriage

9.40 Associate Professor Lisa Young, Murdoch University, Western Australia

The Need for Certainty in Australian Family Property Law

10.10 Professor Linda Elrod, Richard S. Righter Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the WashburnUniversity School of Law, Children and Family Law Center, Topeka, Kansas, USA.

The New Uniform Law on Family Law Arbitration

10.40 Associate Professor Nicola Taylor, Director, The Childrens Issues Centre, University of Otago, New ZealandThe Impact of New Zealands 2014 Family Justice Reforms on Childrens Welfare and Best Interests

11.10 MORNING BREAK


SESSION AChair: Colin Smith,Former NationalChair of the UKFamily MediatorsAssociation

SESSION BChair: Anne-MarieHutchinson,OBE, QC, Partner,Dawson Cornwell

SESSION CChair: AssociateProfessor BruceSmyth, AustralianNational University

SESSION DChair: ColinRogerson, Solicitor,Dawson Cornwell

SESSION EChair: AssociateProfessor NicolaTaylor, Director, TheChildrens IssuesCentre, Universityof Otago, NewZealand

Paper 1 Ursula Rolke,International SocialService, GermanBranchThe German CentralContact Point for

Cross-Border FamilyConflicts andMediation

David Williams QC,4 Paper BuildingsHabitual residence:states of mind therelevance of adultintent and the childs

state of mind

Professor RachelBirnbaum, KingsUniversity Collegeat the University ofWestern Ontario,Canada and

Professor NicolasBala, QueensUniversity, Ontario,Canada Views ofthe Child Reports:Reports of CanadianLawyers and MentalHealth Professionalson Interviews withChildren

Dr. Marjolein Vanden Brink, UtrechtUniversity LawSchoolLegal Gender Identityand The Law of

Parentage

Fiona MacKenzie,Principal MacKenzieElvin, Barristers andSolicitors, Tauranga,New Zealand andPhD Candidate,

University of Otago,New ZealandFeminism andFeminist Theoryas they relate toMotherhood andFamily Law

Paper 2 Professor Dr. AnnaNylund, Universityof Tromso, Norway

Does SettlementTrump the BestInterests of the Child?

A Critical Analysis ofNorwegian Child-Custody Mediation

Edwin Freedman,JD. Attorney. Tel-Aviv, Israel

Habitual Residenceunder the 1980 HagueChild AbductionConvention

Rachel Treloar, PhDCandidate, SimonFraser University,CanadaThe Interrelationshipof Money and Genderin Parents Account ofHigh-ConflictPost-SeparationDisputes InvolvingChildren: A Relational

Autonomy Lens

Dr. Claire Fenton-Glynn, University ofCambridge

Revisiting Parenthoodin the 21st Century

Dr. MarthaHayes Sampson,University ofChesterConsiderations ofGender in Divorce

Across Jurisdictions

Paper 3 Lilia Szarski, ClinicalSupervisor andTrainer, Victoria,AustraliaThe Language of

Children in Mediationof Family Law Disputes

Professor Betty deHart, University ofAmsterdamNormative Frameson Children, Family

and Belonging in theLegal Regulations ofInternational ParentalChild Abduction

Martin Widrig,Research Assistantat Chair ofConstitutional Lawof Prof. Eva Maria

Belser, University ofFribourg, SwitzerlandFundamentalPrinciples underlyingChildrens HumanRights and theirimplications for FamilyLaw Policy

Dr. Ayelet Blecher-Prigat, ShaareiMishpat LawSchool, Israel

Joint Parenthood

as a Distinct LegalCategory in FamilyLaw

Mikiko Otani,Toranomon Lawand EconomicOffices, TokyoThe Mother-Child

Relationship, andGender in Japan


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1.00 LUNCH


Chair: Mr. Justice Moylan, Judge of the Family Division of The High Court of England and Wales

2.10 Anne-Marie Hutchinson, OBE, QC, Partner, Dawson Cornwell

FGM and Cutting an International Response

2.40 Professor Liz Schneider, Brooklyn Law School, New York Integrating Experiences of Intimate Violence into Inequality



SESSION A

Chair: Ruth Kirby,4 Paper Buildings

SESSION B

Chair: RachelLangdale QC ,7 Bedford Row

SESSION C

Chair: Dr. FrancesBurton, Co-Director,ICFLPP

SESSION D

Chair: MargaretCasey, QC, NewZealand

SESSION E

Chair: ProfessorStephen Gilmore,Kings College,London

Paper 1 Avril Cryan LL.M,Researcher, Ireland

Legal Responses to

Polygamy and theChallenges Ahead forIreland

Dr. GhislaineLanteigne, LegalResearcher,

Toronto, CanadaRelocation in Englandand in Canada: TheWork and Views ofMediators

Astrid Martalas,Psychologist, SouthAfrica

Dispute Resolutionin South Africa:Facilitation KeepsFamilies Out of Court

Professor Dr.Marina Wellenhofer,Goethe University,

Frankfurt am MainThe ModernisedFamily and theSperm Donor (From aGerman Perspective)

Kieran Walsh,University ofPortsmouth

Good For Democracy,Bad for Families? TheReferendum as aFamily Law ReformMechanism

Paper 2 Hannah Camplin,Student Law Clinic,Westminster LawSchool

The relationshipbetween Student LawClinics, Litigants in

Person and family lawdispute resolution inEngland and Wales

Megan Gollop,University of Otago,New Zealand

Family Adjustmentto the Outcome of aRelocation Dispute:Parent Perspectives

Kirsikka Salminen,LL.M. DoctoralCandidate,University ofHelsinki, Finland

Mediation and ChildRelated Disputes

Who Protects a ChildsRights in Mediation?

Assistant ProfessorElena Falletti,Universita CarloCatteneo-LICU,Castellanza, Italy

Birth abroad byContract: The

International Law onSurrogacy

Associate ProfessorLucinda Ferguson,University ofOxford

A PeculiarlyFamily Law Modelof Statutory

Interpretation?

Paper 3 Judge MaryODwyer, FamilyCourt, Wellington,New Zealand

Family Violence Cases:The Courts Approachin New Zealand

Zenobia Du Toit,Attorney, Miller DuToit Cloete, CapeTown, South Africa

Relocation in SouthAfrica

Sandra Hitchcock,M.A., Mediator,South Africa

Innovative CrossBorder DivorceMediation in a GlobalWorld: Joe and Jody. ACase Study

Barbara ConnollyQC, 7 Bedford Row

The Creation of theModern Family butat What Cost?

Zhao Ningning,Partner, JinchengTongda & Neal,Shanghai

Solutions to Cross-Border Enforcement ofFinancial Issues andChild Arrangements inChina


Chair: Mr. Justice Moylan, Judge of the Family Division of The High Court of England and Wales

5.10 Associate Professor Bruce Smyth, Australian National University The High Conflict Post-Divorce Share-Time Family

5.35 END OF DAY

House of Lords Reception7.009.00pm

Please arrive by 6.45pm to allow sufficient time to clear security systems.

Delegates must bring their invitations and photo ID with them to the House of Lords.

Dress Code: Lounge suit or smart-casual dress. Black tie is not required. (Men require jacket and tie, women smart casual, but no

jeans, denim or similar).

Please see the conference webpage for full information about this event www.famlawandpractice.com

Thursday 7th July 2016


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Friday 8th July 2016


Chair: Henry Setright QC, 4 Paper Buildings

9.10 Professor Marilyn Freeman, Co-Director International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice, and PrincipalResearch Fellow Westminster Law School

The Long-Term Effects of Abduction

9.40 Professor Linda Silberman, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

All Grown up? Assessing the Hague Child Abduction Convention after 35 Years

10.10 The Honourable Chief Justice Diana Bryant, AO, Family Court of Australia and Professor Nick Bala, QueensUniversity, Ontario, Canada

The Guide to Good Practice on Art 13(b) of the Hague Convention: A Progress Report

10.40 Dr. Ann Wollner, Manager, Legal Unit, International Social Services, Australia

International Parental Child Abduction Holistic Approach About Time!

11.10 MORNING BREAK


SESSION A

Chair: AssociateProfessor LisaYoung, MurdochUniversity, Australia

SESSION B

Chair: AssociateProfessor NicolaTaylor, Director, TheChildrens IssuesCentre, Universityof Otago, NewZealand

SESSION C

Chair: Dr. AnnWollner,International SocialServices, Australia

SESSION D

Chair: Liz Picker,Edmund BartonChambers, Sydney

SESSION E

Chair: HHJ JaneProbyn, CircuitJudge

Paper 1 Professor MarthaFineman, Robert W.Woodruff Professor

of Law, Emory Law,Atlanta, Georgia,USA

Vulnerablity Theory

Sally Nicholes,Nicholes FamilyLawyers, Australia

and Tim North SC,Australia

Who is a parent in theAustralian Federationand do its lawsconcerning parentageand families in ourmodern world giverise to conflictingoutcomes or fail to payappropriate regardto each childs rightto know his or her

identity?

Ranjit Malhotra,Lawyer,Chandigarh, India

Need for India to Signthe Hague Conventionon Child Abduction

Dr. Lucy-AnnBuckley, NationalUniversity of

Ireland, GalwayPrenuptial Agreementsin Ireland: BalancingFairness and

Autonomy

Dr. Adiva Sifris,Monash University,Melbourne

Who Ought To BeThe Parents? TheRecognition ofParentage of Childrenconceived throughCommercial Surrogacy

Arrangements

Paper 2 Professor EvaRyrstedt, Faculty ofLaw, University ofLund, Sweden

Understanding theNeeds of the Elderly;In the Context ofthe Theories ofVulnerability andNormative Patterns

Professor FedericaGiardini, Universityof Padua, Italy

Are the Children AllEqual Before theLaw? The Italian Casein a ComparativePerspective

Mr. KaoruMagosaki, Director,Hague ConventionDivision, ConsularAffairs Bureau,Ministry of ForeignAffairs, Japan

Efforts and Challengesof Japan in theImplementation ofthe 1980 Hague Child

Abduction Convention

Professor Nadia-Cerasela Anitei,Dunarea de JosUniversity, Romania

Tradition, Reformand HarmonisationTrends in Mattersof Matrimonial

Agreement inRomanian PrivateInternational Law

Professor HfefnaFridriksdottirUniversity ofIceland

Surrogacy in theNordic Countries


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Paper 3 Professor NancyDowd, David H.Levin Chair inFamily Law andDirector, Centeron Children andFamilies, Universityof Florida LevinCollege of Law

A Case for

DevelopmentalEquality: TheIntersection ofVulnerabilities Theoryand Identities Theoryin Childrens Equality

Peter Dunne,Trinity UssherFellow, PhDCandidate in Law,Trinity College,Ireland

Parent-ChildRelationships in LegalGender Recognition

Clare Renton, 29Bedford Row

Undertakings andinternational childabduction

(Fmr) JudgeMarjorie T.Uyengco-Nolasco,Managing Partner,Nolasco andAssociate LawOffices, Philippines

I Love You, I Hate You,But How Can I leaveYou? The Philippine

Experience on HowSpouses TerminateTheir Marriage ina Country WithoutDivorce throughPsychologicalIncapacity

Dr. Ruth Zafran,Radzyner School ofLaw, Israel

Siblings-RelationshipDeserving LegalRecognition: The Caseof Old and NewFamilies

1.00 LUNCH


Chair: The Right Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond, Deputy President of The Supreme Court of theUnited Kingdom

2.10 Dr. Rob George, University College, London, and Harcourt Chambers

The Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court: Old Dogs, New Tricks?

2.40 Professor Stephen Gilmore, Kings College, London Family Law and Legal Method: A Critical Perspective



SESSION A

Chair: ProfessorLiz Kelly,CWASU, London

MetropolitanUniversity

SESSION B

Chair: Sir PeterSinger, (Fmr)High Court

Judge of theFamily Division,England andWales

SESSION C

Chair:Marcus ScottManderson,

QC, 4 PaperBuildings

SESSION D

Chair: Dr.Frances Burton,Co-Director,

InternationalCentre for FamilyLaw, Policy andPractice

SESSION E

Chair: ProfessorMarielleBruning, Leiden

University

SESSION F

Chair: The HonLord Brailsford,Judge of the

SupremeCourts, Scotland

Paper 1 AssistantProfessor IremCaglar, OzyeginUniversity LawSchool, Turkey

A Legal Analysisof Beslemekik: AType of Domestic

Abuse in Turkey

DJ KevinNg, FamilyJustice Courts,Singapore

Charlie andthe Puddle: TheIntegration ofSocial Science andLaw in the Family

Justice Courts ofSingapore

Laura Carpaneto,Researcherand Lecturer,InternationalLaw andInternationalOrganisations,University ofGenoa, Italy

The Role ofParty Autonomyin EU PrivateInternationalLaw InstrumentsConcerningFamily Matters

Philip MarcusLL.M, Judge(Retired)JerusalemFamily Court,Israel

New Families:Normative andFunctional

Principles

ProfessorMarielleBruningand SimonaFlorescu, PhDCandidate,Leiden LawSchool

Enhancing the

Role of Childrenin ProceedingsBefore theEuropean Court ofHuman Rights

The HonourableChief JusticeDiana BryantAO, FamilyCourt ofAustralia;

Judge LaurenceRyan, PrincipalFamily Court

Judge, NewZealand

Judge JudithKreeger, SeniorCircuit Judge,Florida, USA

Re-StructuringFamilies: aParadigm for the21st Century

Paper 2 ShiranReichenberg,Advocate; PhDCandidate,Faculty ofLaw, HebrewUniversity,JerusalemThe Children thatNo-One Sees:

Access to Justicefor Young Girls Exclusion FromYouth Court

AssociateProfessor MariaForsman, UmeaForum forStudies on Lawand Society,Sweden

LegalRepresentationfor Child AbuseVictims in Sweden

Dr. MerelJonker andDr. ChristinaJeppensen deBoer, UtrechtUniversity LawSchool

What ComesFirst, ReturnProceedings orConciliation

Attempts?

Sarah Atkins,TeachingFellow,University ofPortsmouth

Forced Povertyand PoliticisedMarginalisation:Raising Familiesin the Irish AsylumSystem

Kartica vande Zon, LL.M,PhD Candidate,Leiden LawSchool

Access to Justicefor Children inFoster Care


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Paper 3 Dr. MaddyCoy, Childand WomanAbuse StudiesUnit, LondonMetropolitanUniversity

An Evaluationof a Programme

for Albanian-speaking WomenExperiencingViolence inLondon

Mr. HassanElhais, SeniorPartner,Al RowaadAdvocates,Dubai

Enforcement ofForeign Orders inthe UAE

StephenCullen andKelly Powers,Attorneys,Miles andStockbridge,Washington DC,USA

What You Need

to do in the UK towin your HagueCase in the USA

Dr. LeaMwambene,University ofWestern Cape

What is The Futureof Polygymy(Polygamy) in

Africa?

Maria de Jong de Kruijf,Lecturer andPhD Candidate,LeidenUniversity

The Participationof Children in

Alternative Care

Procedures andthe PerceivedFairness of theirParticipationon ProceduresConcerning aPlacement inSecure ResidentialCare

PLENARY SESSION

5.00 Chair: Professor Mark Henaghan, University of Otago, New Zealand

5.10 Philippe Lortie, First Secretary, The Permanent Bureau, The Hague Conference on Private International LawThe Application of the 1996 Convention to Unaccompanied and Separated Children

5.40 Closing address: Professor Marilyn Freeman PhD, Co-Director, ICFLPP

5.50 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

Conference Dinner at The Oxford and Cambridge Club, London.Address to be given by Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division of the High Court, London7.30pm reception

Dress Code: Lounge suit or smart-casual dress. Black tie is not required. (Men require jacket and tie, women smart casual, but no

jeans, denim or similar). Please see the conference webpage for full information about this event www.famlawandpractice.com


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