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Susan Heenan, Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England. The widely-reported European Court of Human Rights case of Evans v United Kingdom (Application No 6339/05) was not only contentious in...

Lynn Davis, Solicitor, Consultant to Davis Simmonds and Donaghey, Kent. It is only in the most drastic situations that emergency protection orders (EPOs) are needed. Such situations demand robust law...

Heather Keating, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex. The age at which children are deemed responsible differs between family law and criminal law. Is there any justification for this...

Noel Arnold, Solicitor, Fisher Meredith. The recent Department for Education and Services (DfES) paper Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care (Cm 6932) claims to...

David Hodson, English and Australian solicitor and mediator and Deputy District Judge, Principal Registry of the Family Division. Moore v Moore [2007] EWCA Civ 361, [2007] FLR (forthcoming) is a...

Dr Ruth Gaffney-Rhys, Newport Business School, University of Wales, Newport. The European Court of Human Rights case of Burden and Burden v United Kingdom (Application No 13378/05) at the end of 2006...

Fiona E Raitt, Professor, School of Law, University of Dundee. In family proceedings in England and Wales, children rarely have access to the ultimate decision-maker, the judge. What difference could...

Gabrielle Jan Posner, Barrister, 2 Gray's Inn Square Chambers. Where do the concepts 'kinship assessment' and 'viability assessment' come from, what do they mean and why do they appear to have...

Rhiannon Davies and Fayyaz Afzal, New Walk Chambers, Leicester. Although the Protocol for Judicial Case Management in Public Law Children Act Cases [2003] 2 FLR 719 sets a guideline of 40 weeks for...

Nicholas Bamforth. Should marriage and civil partnerships be seen as parallel institutions for all major civil purposes? Although the Civil Partnership Act 2004 represents recognition of the...

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