X -v- Latvia: Judgment of ECHR

The European Court of Human Rights will be delivering a Grand Chamber judgment in the case of X v. Latvia (application no. 27853/09) at a public hearing on 26 November 2013 at 11 a.m. – local time – in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg. The case concerns the application of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction of 25 October 1980 by the Latvian courts in ordering the return of the applicant’s daughter to Australia with her father, and its compatibility with the provisions of Article 8 of the Convention.