US State Department 2013 Hague Convention Compliance report paints very sad picture on poor performance of Polish judicial system and the corruption, with equally sad attitude of American authorities on that subject.
As BBC reports, Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson was six, when her father abducted her to Pakistan three years ago. Even though Pakistan is not the party to the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of Child Abductions, she was returned from Pakistan, after the father was sent to prison for refusing to disclose where his daughter was hidden. It […]
Having been exposed to many years in Polish and American courts, I could never understand why would seemingly educated and intelligent judge, prosecutor or social worker write an opinion, say something, that undermined or simply negated the basic rules of law and common sense. Up till now, I blamed the situation in Poland on selected human […]
Today, was the day. A follow-up letter to a yet another, meaningless conversation with the Children Issues Department of the State Department representative, that I had a week or so ago. In a nutshell, I, the left-behind parent, was notified, that the case which was only officially “open”, was moved to another department for the […]
The latest report published by the U.S. Department of State was issued in April of 2007. Poland was listed as one of 7 countries demonstrating pattern of noncompliance (one step below the "grand prize winner" of this report - Honduras. Second place is not where any civilized country want to be! Especially, NOT on this list!