Since May 2024 funding has been available to meet the reasonable legal costs of a defendant to an application seeking the return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
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The effect of the December 2022 changes to the Child Abduction Regulation
“The plain terms of reg 16(3)b of the regulations remain unchanged.” Justice Christie Department of Communities and Justice & Mercado [2023] FedCFamC1F874 at [118]. No substantive change to the law following the 8 December 2022 amendments to the Regulation governing applications under the Hague Abduction Convention.