Courts ordered to consider cases of children kidnapped by parents more carefully

Czech courts will have to assess cases of children kidnapped by one of their parents more carefully and need not always automatically return children to the country they were born in, according to a landmark verdict by the Supreme Court. The ruling was made following a case in which courts in Prague returned a girl to Germany without thoroughly investigating her living circumstances. The Supreme Court annulled those verdicts and demanded the case be reopened.

Author: Ian Willoughby