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This commentary considers the concepts of 'family life' and 'private life' as embodied in Article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950 (the...

Taking the six terms of schoolboy Joseph Hills' Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) as its starting point, this commentary examines three general principles which the courts have said apply to the...

The Court of Appeal has held that before a court determines the level of staying contact to be enjoyed by a parent with a child (or when under a shared residence order it defines the number of nights...

The law in most developed countries puts ‘the best interests of the child' at the heart of decisions about children, and practitioners use this standard in their work. In this article, the views of...

Lord Penzance's description of marriage in Hyde v Hyde and Woodmansee has often been cited as the legal definition of marriage, and has been relied on to deny marital status to a number of unions,...

The anti-social behaviour order has proved to be one of the more controversial elements of the Government's agenda for law and order. On the face of it, however, little of that controversy is...

This article takes issue with recent suggestions that children's voices might best be heard in family law proceedings by means of judicial interviews. Drawing on theoretical and legal literature,...

This commentary examines the decision of the House of Lords in R (Begum) v Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School in which the majority held that Shabina Begum's right to and manifestation...

Does the right to 'found a family' (Article 12) mean that prisoners and their partners should be granted access to artificial insemination facilities? In Dickson v United Kingdom the European Court of...

Unlike the first instance judgment in this case, the Court of Appeal decision in R (Burke) v General Medical Council has attracted little criticism. The majority of commentators appear to regard the...

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