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2 March 2015

Third (or fourth) time lucky for care proceedings reform? [2015] CFLQ 3
Keywords: Care proceedings – delay – law reform – implementation – local authority lawyersIn the last decade, new procedures have been introduced on three occasions to ensure that...
Judith Masson
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12 June 2014

Geopolitics and the right to education, and why ‘no person’ is, in fact, a child [2014] CFLQ 196
Keywords: Human rights – right to education – Transdniestria – Russia – Moldova – schools – orthography – effective control – extraterritorial jurisdiction This article explores the right to...
Bill Bowring
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12 June 2014

Same-sex marriage but not mixed-sex partnerships: should the Civil Partnership Act 2004 be extended to opposite-sex couples? [2014] CFLQ 173
Keywords: Civil partnerships – opposite-sex couples – equality – privacy – dignity – autonomy – human rights – PACS The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which was presented by the...
Ruth Gaffney-Rhys
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12 June 2014

Listening to the child’s voice in the family setting: from aspiration to reality [2014] CFLQ 152
Keywords: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 12 – right to be heard – participation rights – child’s views – family International efforts to ensure compliance with...
Elaine E. Sutherland
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12 June 2014

Speaking when they are spoken to: hearing vulnerable witnesses in care proceedings [2014] CFLQ 132
Keywords: Vulnerable witness – cross-examination – care proceedings – special measures This article considers who is a ‘vulnerable witness’ and how their evidence is heard in family court...
Penny Cooper
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12 June 2014

Care proceedings – is there a better way? [2014] CFLQ 113
Keywords: Care proceedings – alternative dispute resolution – family group conferences – mediation – family support The Family Justice Review reported in 2011 on the increasing volume of...
Dr Julie Doughty
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11 March 2014

Climate Change? The multiple trajectories of shared care law, policy and social practices [2014] CFLQ 30
Keywords: Parental separation – shared care – social norms and practices – policy development This article explores how shared care following parental separation or divorce has...
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11 March 2014

Children’s rights – Flattering to deceive? [2014] CFLQ 51
Keywords: Children – children’s rights – theoretical concepts – Convention on the Rights of the Child – European Convention on Human Rights, Article 3 – paramountcy – children’s welfare –...
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10 March 2014

Protecting the rights of vulnerable and incapacitous adults – the role of the courts: an example of judicial law making [2014] CFLQ 64
Keywords: Inherent jurisdiction – vulnerable adults – mental capacity – Court of Protection – welfare A historical analysis of the rediscovery – in truth the invention – by the judges of...
Sir James Munby
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10 March 2014

Law and family life: insights from 25 years of empirical research [2014] CFLQ 14
Keywords: Families – empirical socio-legal research – social and legal change In this article I attempt to turn back the clock in order to bring the recent history of private family law in...
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