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The Superior Court in
New Haven, Connecticut relied in substantial part on the expert evidence
presented by Jeremy Morley as to family law in India in ruling that the mother
of a young girl should not be allowed to travel to India with the child for a
visit with family. The child’s father
opposed the travel because of his legitimate concerns that the child might
never return. The Court relied primarily on Mr. Morley’s testimony in its ruling, which was issued on
July 18, 2012. The Court’s stated that:
“The
Court is absolutely convinced that—well, let me back up for one second. We, normally in these matters, do not have
the opportunity to hear from an expert witness, particularly someone as learned
and experienced in what I’ll call international issues as Attorney Morley who
was here this morning. As everyone
knows, Attorney Morley only testified for probably about 15-20 minutes. We sometimes, lawyers and judges will discuss
people’s testimony and sometimes say it’s the quality not the quantity of the
testimony that is appropriate.
In
that 15-20 minutes Attorney Morley laid out what I’ll refer to as both, I
think, the social interaction between the parents and the political in India,
the United States, the Hague Convention, their courts, our courts, that sort of
thing in a very succinct, intelligent and sophisticated manner; the Court found
Attorney Morley’s testimony to be extremely credible.”
