Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000364/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 April 1998.
1. On 5 th September 1997, the Child Abduction and Custody Ordinance ("Ordinance") came into force in Hong Kong. The Ordinance was to give effect to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Hague Convention"). The necessity for this Ordinance was of long standing as international abduction of children had become a major international problem for many years and this had resulted in the international agreement known as the Hague Convention. Large number of