Relocation of children

Relocation cases are always extremely difficult for courts to adjudicate on as they usually mean that one parent or the other is going to see a lot less of their children and so there are no winners in all of…

One day in 2003, Douglas Galbraith discovered that his Japanese wife had left home and taken their two young sons. In writing about their abduction, he sets out a world view he hopes they will read: it might be the…

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL JUDGMENT:DPP -v- Moustafa Iasmaeil

High Court judgment Neutral Citation IEHC 519 HIGH COURT Judgment was delivered on April 15th, 2011, by Mr Justice John MacMenamin JUDGMENT An application for the relocation of children from Ireland to Spain with their mother, who was separated from…

THE SON of divorced parents who had refused to return to England to live with his mother following a holiday with his father in Ireland may remain here, the High Court has ruled. The mother of the boy (13) had…

DESPITE ONE-THIRD of births occurring in non-marital relationships, unmarried Irish fathers remain deeply ignorant of their legal situation. Under Irish law, such fathers have no automatic right to the day-to-day care of their children (“custody”) or to a say in…