Darren Howe KC MCIArb

International Family Law

Darren undertakes international child abduction and relocation cases. International family law issues arise regularly in the public law and private law cases in which Darren appears. Darren is very experienced in addressing the international elements of modern family law, particularly relocation issues.

Selected Cases

• Re B (A Child) (1980 Hague Convention Proceedings) [2014] EWCA Civ 375: Appeal against a decision by the High Court to return a child, who was the subject of care proceedings, to France.
• Re E (Abduction: Intolerable Situation) [2009] 2 FLR 485: Successful opposition to an order returning the children to their country of origin on the basis that child was settled and objected to return and a return would expose him to psychological harm or would otherwise place him in an intolerable situation.
• Re T (Abduction: Rights of Custody) [2008] 2 FLR 1794: Case concerning how the Court in the child’s country of origin should, in Hague Convention abduction cases, be asked to determine in the court of Oregon if public funding would be available for the abducting parent in the country of origin.