Mother blaims legal team in child abduction case

A Queensland mother has sacked her legal team in the fight to keep her daughters from being deported. In 2010, the woman took her four daughters and fled to Australia as a refugee from Italy.

The woman defied a court order on Wednesday to surrender her children at Brisbane International Airport so they could be deported to Italy to go through custody proceedings. In compliance with the Hague Convention's provisions on international child abduction, the woman was ordered to send her children back to Italy to go through custody proceedings with her separated partner.

The mother claims that her children are in this current position due to her poor representation by a Parramatta legal firm.

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