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Diahann Gordon Harrison, Jamaica's children's advocate. |
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The Jamaican mother of a three-year-old boy has been ordered to return the child to his father in United States amid a simmering year-long dispute that drew on international law governing child abduction. The landmark case was anchored on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980, to which Jamaica became signatory three and a half years ago, and a senior legal expert here believes it will offer a template for similar undertakings and deter aggrieved parents from going rogue. While declining to speak in detail on the decision until she had combed through the judgment, Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison told The Gleaner that the ruling was “major”.
“The fact that it is the first such decision, it will set the tone for how these matters are dealt with going forward,” Gordon Harrison, who is also special rapporteur on trafficking in persons, said. more
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