J.V. v Q.I (Approved)

AND IN THE MATTER OF THE HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION

�(a)��� to secure the prompt return of children wrongfully removed to or retained in any contracting State;

(b)���� to ensure that rights of custody and of access under the law of one contracting State are effectively respected in the other contracting States.�

4.������ Section 38(2) of the 1991 Act provides �rules of court may make provision for the expeditious hearing of an application under Part II or Part III of this Act.� Part II pertains to the Hague Convention.

6.������ The marital relationship between the parties broke down in or about the year 2016. On the 7th November, 2016 the father and mother entered into an agreement relating to the marital breakdown which was made a rule of court. It was further approved by Court order on the 29th March, 2018. It prohibited either parent from removing the children from the jurisdiction of the courts of Belgium.