Court : Singapore Supreme Court
..... the dj concluded that the alleged harm from domestic violence could not be so grave or intolerable to the ..... association with the commonwealth secretariat (commonwealth secretariat, london, february 1981) at para 1.1 ("explanatory documentation") (reference may also be made to eekelaar at 305-306)): the preamble to the [hague] convention makes explicit the twin premises upon which the [hague] convention is based: first, that the interests of ..... the mother ("the appellant") against the high court's affirmation of the district court's decision allowing the application of the father ("the respondent") under s 8(1) of the international child abduction act (cap 143c, 2011 rev ed) ("the act") for the return of [b] to germany on the basis that he ([b]) had been wrongfully retained in singapore by the ..... ensure that the appropriate safeguards are in place so that they are not only enforceable by the court of habitual residence but also that they furnish the abducting parent and child with adequate protection so that the intent and spirit of the hague convention ..... the second reading of the international child abduction bill (bill no 22 of 2010) ("the de6ates")), despite the many calls for it to do so (see, for example, leong wai kum, "international co-operation in child abduction across borders" (1999) 11 saclj 409 ("leong"); leong wai kum, "the convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction - a case for singapore to be a member state" the singapore law gazette, july 2005 .....
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