Featured Authors: Michael Nicholls, Professor Nigel Lowe
N. Lowe and M. Nicholls The 1996 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children (2nd edn 2025)( LexisNexis/Family Law)
In the modern world, where cross-border parenting disputes are now almost part of everyday life for family lawyers, the second edition of Nigel Lowe and Michael Nicholls’ book on the 1996 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children is an essential guide to a Convention that applies in over 55 countries to almost all international situations concerning children, including making orders about parental responsibility, residence and contact, care orders, injunctions and children’s property.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the Convention, including its complicated rules about jurisdiction, applicable law, the recognition and enforcement of orders made in other States and its relationship with other international instruments, including the 1980 Child Abduction Convention.