The analysis of the views of the doctrine and of the European Court of Human Rights, the Constitutional Tribunal and the Supreme Court on the concept of “the child’s welfare” allows to assume that it is the same as the “interests of the child” referred to in the preamble to The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. This criterion must be taken into account by the courts when assessing the grounds for refusing to order the return the abducted child under Art. 13 (b) of The Hague Convention. However it should be considered that this provision constitutes an exception to the principle of ensuring the return of the child to the state from which it was taken.

The analysis of the Article 31 of the Act on medical activity concerning the autopsy leads to the conclusion that it should be amended. This is due to its comparison with the provisions relating to the disclosure of medical records, medical confidentiality and the collection of cells, tissues and organs, but also it results from the Polat v. Austria judgment, in which the European Court of Human Rights ruled that an autopsy of a child in breach of religious belief was a violation of the parent’s right to respect for his private and family life and religious freedom (Articles 8 and 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights).