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David Hodson on International Family Law: Cross Border All-Ireland Family Law Initiative

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Date:17 NOV 2011

David HodsonAt the weekend 11th of November 2011 there was a historic launch in Belfast of a cross-border initiative between the family lawyers of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The occasion was the annual conference of the Family Lawyers Association of Ireland being the family law association of the Republic of Ireland which has 600 members. This year they held their annual conference in Belfast Northern Ireland for the launch of this initiative. At a celebration at the Royal Courts of Justice Belfast attended by lawyers and judges and other family law professionals from across Ireland and specifically with The Family Law Bar Association of Northern Ireland in attendance the All-Ireland Family Law Initiative was launched.

The experience of many countries in close geographical and historic proximity to each other is that there are very many family law links and connections. This is supremely the case within the two countries comprising Ireland. Child abductions tend...

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