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27 September 2011

Cohabitation: lessons from research north of the border? [2011] CFLQ 302
The controversial question of cohabitation law reform in England and Wales lingers on unanswered. Meanwhile, the Scottish Parliament has pressed ahead, and the Westminster Government signalled an...
Enid Mordaunt Joanna Miles Fran Wasoff
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27 September 2011

Cohabitation: lessons from north of the border? [2011] CFLQ 277
There has been little progress towards reform of the property consequences resulting from the breakdown of cohabitation since the Law Commission's 2007 report on the subject. In Scotland, however,...
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27 September 2011

CHILD AND FAMILY LAW QUARTERLY Vol 23, No 3, 2011
CHILD AND FAMILY LAW QUARTERLY Vol 23, No 3, 2011 Contents Articles Cohabitation: lessons from north of the border? by Frankie McCarthy 277 Cohabitation: lessons from research north of the...
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26 September 2011

Shutting the door on negligence liability: Lawrence v Pembrokeshire County Council and L v Reading Borough Council [2009] CFLQ 384
In D v East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust the House of Lords held that healthcare and local authorities owed no duty of care in negligence to parents who were being investigated in cases of...
Elaine Palser
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26 September 2011

The Limits of Proprietary Estoppel: Thorner v Major [2009] CFLQ 367
In Thorner v Major, the House of Lords upheld the proprietary estoppel claim of a Somerset farmer who had worked without pay on his cousin's farm on the strength of oblique assurances that he would...
John Mee
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26 September 2011

E.B. v France: a missed opportunity? [2009] CFLQ 356
In January 2008, the Grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of E.B. v France. The case revolved around a proposed single-parent homosexual adoption. The...
Ian Curry-Sumner
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26 September 2011

Children's right to know their origins – too far, too fast? [2009] CFLQ 336
This article reviews the way that ideas about children's right to know the identity of their biological parents have developed over the last 15 years. It argues that the concept of a child's ‘right to...
Jane Fortin
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26 September 2011

Between unconditional acceptance and responsibility: should family ethics limit the scope of reproductive autonomy? [2009] CFLQ 309
Reproductive technologies have an influence on the perception of the family and its structure. A particular issue is whether reproductive autonomy should include the right to influence the...
Roy Gilbar
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26 September 2011

'It is difficult for a white judge to understand': orientalism, racialisation, and Christianity in English child welfare cases [2009] CFLQ 283
This paper considers a set of English child welfare cases in order to explore judicial representations of non-Christianness. Drawing upon insights contained in feminist, critical race, and...
Suhraiya Jivraj and Didi Herman
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26 September 2011

'Bodies in the Shadows': joint birth registration, parental responsibility and social class [2009] CFLQ 267
The government has marked its intention to ensure that whenever possible both biological parents register the birth of their child, thus making joint birth registration the default position in law....
Julie Wallbank
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