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20 September 2011

R (D) v Camberwell Green Youth Court - Child witnesses deemed to be in 'need of special protection' and the European Convention [2006] CFLQ 562
In Camberwell Green, the House of Lords confirmed the compliance of the irrebuttable presumption that in criminal trials, 'special measures' maximise the quality of the evidence of child witnesses...
Rhonda Powell
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UK women's groups' child contact campaign: 'so long as it is safe' [2006] CFLQ 538
In this article, the author demonstrates that, during their recent child contact campaign, UK women's groups concentrated on violence-based feminist critiques of child contact to the exclusion of...
Helen Reece
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20 September 2011

Relocating relocation [2006] CFLQ 517
This article considers the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 in cases where a parent wishes to remove a child from the jurisdiction, against the wishes of the other. It argues that the courts...
Rachel Taylor Jonathan Herring
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20 September 2011

Child abduction: inchoate rights of custody and the unmarried father [2006] CFLQ 499
The Second Special Commission reviewing the operation of the Hague Child Abduction Convention concluded that the term 'rights of custody' in Article 3 of the Convention has a 'Convention...
Kisch Beevers
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20 September 2011

Court decision-making in shared residence order cases: a critical examination [2006] CFLQ 478
Increased use of child dual residence upon parental separation has been suggested as a response to alleged deficiencies in facilitation and enforcement of contact between children and non-resident...
Stephen Gilmore
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20 September 2011

Adoption: research, policy and practice [2006] CFLQ 459
This article discusses the role and use of research in the context of current pressure to make policy and practice more 'evidence based'. The discussion is focussed on adoption and uses three...
David Quinton Julie Selwyn
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M v B, A and S (by the Official Solicitor) - protecting vulnerable adults from being forced into marriage [2006] CFLQ 445
The Family Division of the High Court recently exercised its inherent jurisdiction to prevent a vulnerable adult from being force into marriage. This commentary explains why the prevention of forced...
Ruth Gaffney-Rhys
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20 September 2011

Re R (IVF: Paternity of Child): assisting conception for the single infertile [2006] CFLQ 423
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the procedures it sought to regulate have been the focus of much comment since it came into force in 1992. While the debates leading to the Act...
Sara Fovargue
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20 September 2011

'Suitable' to be a 'saviour': R (Quintavalle) v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2006] CFLQ 407
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's decision to licence pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in conjunction with Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) tissue typing as a means of screening...
Amel Alghrani
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20 September 2011

Protecting children in criminal proceedings: parity for child witnesses and child defendants [2006] CFLQ 397
This article examines how the criminal justice agencies are implementing the legislative and administrative measures designed to enable child witnesses to give their best evidence in criminal...
Andrew Sanders Mandy Burton Roger Evans
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