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Rising divorce rates and residualisation of the basic pension make it urgent to ask whether divorced women of working age can build an adequate private pension for their retirement. Recent legislation...

The field of special educational needs, relevant to millions of children, generates considerable conflict. Rights, duties and discretion interact with resource allocation and policy issues. Since 1994...

The Administrative Court, in quashing the convictions of two editors for breaching an anonymity order under section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, missed an opportunity to clarify the...

This commentary explores the recent decision of the House of Lords in Royal Bank of Scotland plc v Etridge (No 2) and considers its impact on the ability of a surety to set aside a loan transaction on...

An analysis of decisions from the Court of Appeal on secure accommodation and human rights, focusing on the nature of secure accommodation, the source of the power to detain, the court's role and...

This article considers family solicitors' responses to recent initiatives intended to improve legal practice in handling family breakdown. It discusses solicitors' practice and views in relation to...

The lack of children's rights in education and political resistance to reform in this area has attracted much critical attention. This article explores the distinctions between child law and education...

This article considers the practical operation of the Children Act 1989 complaints procedure in a number of ways. Recent inquiries and Government reports are considered, as well as changes stemming...

Overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that a female child faces a significantly elevated risk of being sexually abused after her parents' divorce, at the hands of a parent, a parent's partner, or...

In Re J (A Child) (Adopted Child: Contact), the Court of Appeal minimised the effect of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 on post-adoption contact, continuing the restrictive approach taken to such...

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