27-594: HCJ may refer to: Hague Convention on Jurisdiction Handcrafting Justice , an American fair trade organization Heathcote Junction railway station , in Victoria, Australia Hechi Jinchengjiang Airport , in Guangxi, China High Council of Justice (disambiguation) High Court of Justice (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
54-533: A Member State has jurisdiction under Articles 2-6. The challenges that exist in determining the scope of the Regulation in terms of jurisdiction do not apply in terms of recognition and enforcement. Under recognition and enforcement it is clear that where a judgment is delivered to one Member State, regardless of the jurisdictional basis, it will be recognized by the other Member states without any special procedure required. Despite recognition being automatic, it
81-541: A matter falls within their scope. Since the grounds of jurisdiction are common across all contracting states, once a judgment is handed down the original exercise of jurisdiction cannot be challenged. Further, recognition and enforcement can only be opposed on extremely limited grounds. The original Regulation was replaced with Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments , which came into force on 1 August 2004 and applies from 1 March 2005 in matrimonial matters and
108-599: A so-called "post-boxing" system under which communications between Spain and Gibraltar involving the treaties will go through London. After this deal the Convention entered into force for several EU countries, including Spain and the United Kingdom. All EU member states have ratified the convention. The 1996 Convention entered into force in Russia on 1 June 2013. The first use of the Convention in Russia, known as
135-1050: A system for the allocation of jurisdiction and the reciprocal enforcement of judgments between European Union Member States and was modelled on the 1968 Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters . It was intended to regulate domains that were excluded from the Brussels Convention and Brussels I . The Brussels II Regulation deals with conflict of law issues in family law between member states; in particular those related to divorce and child custody . The Regulation seeks to facilitate free movement of divorce and related judgments between Member States. The original Brussels II Regulation has since been recast, repealed, and replaced by its current version, Brussels II-A (EU) No 2201/2003, which has been in force since 1 March 2005. Brussels II-A (EU) Regulation No 2201/2003
162-431: Is nevertheless habitually resident in another Member State, the jurisdiction of the former is restricted to cases where: (a) at least one of the spouses has parental responsibility to the child; and (b) the jurisdiction of the courts has been accepted by the spouses and is in the best interests of the child. In order to ensure that no jurisdictional conflicts arise, the Regulation employs a lis pendens provision based on
189-506: Is only concerned with covering the actual proceedings that end a marriage. The second part of Article 1(1) states that the regulation shall apply to "civil proceedings relating to parental responsibility for the children of both spouses on the occasion of the matrimonial proceedings referred to in (a)" . This section is also only dealing with a narrow subset of the potential civil proceedings that might arise with regard to parental responsibility, those that deal with children of both spouses where
216-425: Is still open to any interested party to apply for a decision that the judgment not be recognized. While the mechanics for this are grounded in national law, the grounds of non-recognition are restricted to those provided by Article 15 of the regulation. Regarding enforcement, Article 21 refers exclusively to judgments on the exercise of parental responsibility, as recognition of an order ending a matrimonial relationship
243-492: Is therefore much broader in scope than two earlier conventions of the HCCH on the subject. The convention has uniform rules determining which country's authorities are competent to take the measures of protection. The Convention determines which country's laws are to be applied, and it provides for the recognition and enforcement of measures taken in one Contracting State in all other Contracting States. The co-operation provisions of
270-533: The Convention and because the Convention did not provide for the signature of "Regional Economic Integration Organizations". The issues covered in the Brussels II Regulation regime can be divided into two categories: matrimonial proceedings and concurrent parental responsibility proceedings. Article 1(1)(a) provides that the Regulation shall apply to "civil proceedings relating to divorce, legal separation or marriage annulment." This first section
297-691: The Convention provide the basic framework for the exchange of information and for the necessary degree of collaboration between administrative authorities in the Contracting States. The Convention entered into force 1 January 2002 and as of October 2022 has 54 contracting States. Argentina, Canada, North Macedonia and the United States have signed the convention, but have not ratified it. The 1996 Convention aims to avoid orders about children's property and welfare (excluding parental responsibility and contact) being made in any state other than
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#1732773238070324-576: The European Union has to authorise it member states to sign and to ratify the convention and state so. The European Union authorised signature and ratification in 2002 and 2008 respectively. The ratification directive was delayed as a result of the Gibraltar dispute between Spain and the United Kingdom. In January 2008 an agreement was reached to resolve the situation to allow progress on this and other treaties. Britain and Spain compromised on
351-486: The Moscow City Court upheld their first ruling and the orders to return the children became final. The order was not enforced until the end of June 2014 when Russian law enforcement officials found the children, who had been kept hidden by their father for over seven months since he lost his appeal. Brussels II Brussels II Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000, which came into force on 1 March 2001, sets out
378-575: The Neustadt case, concerned the retention in Russia of two minors by their father when an order made in the United Kingdom had said they should live with their mother. The case was heard by the Moscow City Court in September 2013, which ruled to recognize and enforce English court orders for a return of the children to their mother in the United Kingdom. The father appealed, but in November 2013
405-493: The Protection of Children (Convention), which largely overlaps with this regulation. For cases within the European Union, the Regulation takes precedence over the convention. The European Union authorized the signature and ratification of the convention with Council decisions 2003/93 and 2008/431, respectively. The authorization was necessary as the European Union and the member states had a shared competence over all matters of
432-470: The Protection of Children or Hague Convention 1996 is a convention of the Hague Conference on Private International Law ("Hague Conference" or HCCH). It covers civil measures of protection concerning children, ranging from orders concerning parental responsibility and contact to public measures of protection or care, and from matters of representation to the protection of children's property. It
459-743: The Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Matrimonial Matters and in Matters of Parental Responsibility for Children of both Spouses ( Brussels II ) came into force. The Regulation marked a departure for the European Community and was the first in a series of legislative instruments dealing with jurisdictional issues as they arise in relation to family law issues. The original Brussels II Regulation provided an exclusive list of jurisdictional bases that must be used when
486-621: The children are habitually resident in a Member State and that arise on the occasion of the matrimonial proceeding identified in Article 1(1)(a). Like civil and commercial matters, compromises (settlements) have been made to establish a common jurisdictional framework aimed at achieving certainty within the 14 European Member states as a whole, excluding Denmark. Article 2 of the Regulation sets our seven jurisdiction bases, all of equal status, with regard to divorce, legal separation, and nullity actions. These jurisdictional bases open up jurisdiction to
513-470: The courts having jurisdiction in the matrimonial proceedings covered by Article 2 are able to take jurisdiction in a matter relating to parental responsibility over a child of both spouses where the child is habitually resident in that Member State. That being said, under Article 3(2) where the child is not habitually resident in the Member State that has jurisdiction over the matrimonial proceedings, but
540-484: The courts of the member state in which the spouses are habitually resident, or in the case of a joint application, either of the spouses is habitually resident, the spouses were last habitually resident, insofar as one of them still resides there, the applicant is habitually resident provided this is reinforced by 12 or 6 months residence, or jurisdiction may be founded on the couple's common nationality. Regarding cases involving parental responsibility, Article 3 states that
567-430: The last twenty-five years, a fundamental purpose being to provide the practical machinery to enable States which share a common interest in protecting children to co-operate together to do so. The 1996 Convention is the broadest in scope of those three, covering as it does a very wide range of civil measures of protection concerning children, ranging from public measures of protection or care to matters of representation to
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#1732773238070594-598: The matters of parental responsibility. The revised Brussels II legislation is variously referred to as Brussels II bis or B, or Brussels IIA, or the new Brussels II, and repeals the older regulation. Both regulations applied to all EU member states except Denmark. All member states of the European Union have also become party to the Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for
621-568: The protection of children's property. It also covers: The subject of the convention is one of the subjects treated in the EU's Brussels II regulations. Between member states this regulation takes precedence over the Hague Convention as it is "at least as favourable as the rules laid down in the Convention". The subjects of convention furthermore is an area of mixed competence between the European Union and its member states , which means that
648-541: The state in which the child is habitually resident. It also allows orders made in the child's state of habitual residence to be registered and made enforceable in other Convention countries. It establishes a framework for the co-ordination of legal systems, and for international judicial and administrative co-operation. The Hague Conference has, for more than a century, been involved in measures of protection under civil law of children at risk in cross-frontier situations. Three Hague Children's Conventions have been developed over
675-515: The strict application of the prior temporis formula. This means that the court second seised will stay its proceedings until the jurisdiction of the court first seised is established. Article 11 provides certainty but also restricts flexibility. Article 7 states that the grounds of jurisdiction in Articles 2-6 are exclusive, however, Article 8 provides that member states may have recourse to their residual grounds of jurisdiction whenever no court of
702-734: The title HCJ . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HCJ&oldid=712952291 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hague Convention on Jurisdiction The Hague Convention on parental responsibility and protection of children , or Hague Convention 1996 , officially Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for
729-434: Was replaced, as of 1 August 2022, by Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (recast). The Regulation applies to all European Union member states except Denmark. On 1 March 2001, Council Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000 of 29 May 2000 on Jurisdiction and
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