Lived experiences of abduction cases involving DV
Roz Osborne (United Kingdom), CEO of GlobalARRK; Ruth Dineen (United
Kingdom), FiLiA Hague Mothers, International Coordinator; Juliana
Santos Wahlgren (Belgium/Brazil), Executive Director, Revibra;
Janaína Albuquerque (Brazil), Lawyer, and legal coordinator at Revibra
– to coordinate with a range of survivor and advocate groups including
Her Hague Story (Australia), New Zealand Hague Collective, Narkis
Golan Initiative (US) – Possible use of recorded video messages (with
English subtitles)
(no direct questioning of victims)
Approaches to hearing the child in return proceedings where DV is raised
Moderator: Freia Carlton (Australia), Associate Director Mediation Victoria Legal
Aid
Introduction by Noelle Hunter (United States of America) Clinical Assistant
Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Founding Partner in
the Coalition to End International Parental Child Abduction
Ana Quintella (United States of America),
lead counselor of Learn4life
High Schools, adult survivor
Michelle Fernando (Australia), Senior Lecturer in Law, University of South
Australia (online)
Stephanie Brandt (United States of America), Adult and Child Psychiatrist
and Clinical Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry at Weill Cornell
Medical College (online)
Kerri Phillips (Australia), Independent Children’s Lawyer for the Child
Judge Martina Erb-Klünemann
(Germany), Judge at the Family Court,
District Court of Hamm
Session 5
Mediation and other ADR methods in return proceedings where DV is raised
Moderator: Freia Carlton (Australia), Associate Director Mediation Victoria Legal
Aid
Craig Schneider (South Africa), Director/Partner at
Associates, with a practice in family law and mediation
Valentina Shaknes (United States of America), Attorney specializing in The
Hague Convention Child Abduction issues / Krauss Shaknes Tallentire
& Messeri LLP
Reception, Protea Hotel by Marriott Johannesburg Balalaika, hosted by Brazil
(formal or traditional attire)