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Barrister and Lecturer Harcourt Chambers

Dr Rob George is a Barrister at Harcourt Chambers and a Lecturer in family law at University College London. He is recognised as a leading expert on relocation law and other issues relating to international child law, and is frequently instructed in cases involving complex international elements. Rob’s recent reported cases include Re C (Internal Relocation) [2015] EWCA Civ 1305 and Re J (Abduction: 1996 Hague Convention) [2015] UKSC 70, while his books include Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP, 2015) and Relocation Disputes: Law and Practice in England and New Zealand (Hart Publishing, 2014), he is the co-author of Relocation: A Practical Guide (Family Law, 2016) and author of Ideas and Debates in Family Law (Hart, 2012), amongst other publications.

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What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?I have two jobs, one as a barrister practising from Harcourt Chambers, and the other as a lecturer at University College London. They...

Re C (Internal Relocation) [2015] EWCA Civ 1305 marks a new approach to internal relocation disputes. In this note, Dr Rob George of Harcourt Chambers and James Netto of Dawson Cornwell, who acted for...

Keywords: Relocation – leave to remove – case outcomes – judicial decision-makingThere has been considerable controversy over the approach taken to international relocation disputes by the courts of...

As someone whose life is unduly preoccupied with thinking about relocation law, I find it fascinating that the English courts cannot bring themselves to say, in straightforward terms, what we on the...

On 8 July, the Chancellor of the Exchequer unveiled the first Budget of the Conservative government – hype all round – but what are the key points for family lawyers? Unsurprisingly, there is...

Dr Rob George, University of Oxford and Harcourt Chambers Dr Ornella Cominetti, University of Oxford Relocation cases are disputes between separated parents which arise when one of them...

Dr Rob George University College, University of Oxford: The decision in Re F (Child: International Relocation) [2012] EWCA Civ 1364, [2013] 1 FLR (forthcoming) dismissing a father's...

PETER HARRIS, Research Associate, Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, DSPSW, University of Oxford, and ROBERT GEORGE Lecturer in Law, Jesus College, University of Oxford. The Children...

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