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This commentary explores A Local Authority v A and B [2010] EWHC 978 (Fam), [2010] 2 FLR 1363 in which two cases were heard together. One involved a child and the other an adult, each of...
The Supreme Court's long-awaited decision in Radmacher (Formerly Granatino) v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 FLR 1851 has been criticised by some as a blow against the status and significance of...
This article maintains that the legal recognition of obligations for children facilitates their recognition as citizens and agents when such obligations are understood from contextual and relational...
Given the fact that the child and custodial parent generally share a living standard, there is some tension between the traditional rule excluding marital status altogether as a consideration in...
Recent codifications of the English and Scottish law of sexual offences have highlighted significant difficulties with the manner in which the criminal law purports to regulate adolescent sexuality....
Section 3(2) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 requires doctors to take practical steps to help a person with impaired capacity to make a competent medical decision. This legal duty does not extend to...