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Female Genital Mutilation: Law and Practice

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Date:31 OCT 2017
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Elizabeth Taylor & Phillip Taylor MBE
Richmond Green Chambers

FGM has long been ignored by many people but fortunately we are beginning to see changes as the issue rises up the legal agenda. So we have a recent book from LexisNexis/Family Law entitled Female Genital Mutilation which covers one of the most serious offences in English criminal law. 

This book has been written by one of the foremost legal experts in the field: Zimran Samuel of Doughty Street Chambers and a visiting fellow at the LSE. His mission is to offer a single point of reference for all those dealing with this disgusting crime now widely recognised both domestically and internationally as child abuse and a serious human rights violation.

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