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Professor Chris Barton, Retired Family Law Teacher and a Vice-President, Family Mediators Association. Cohabitation contracts are becoming increasingly common and practitioners report a greater demand...

Emma Hitchings, School of Law, University of Bristol, and Tracey Sagar, Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Swansea. The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (the 2002 Act) came into force...

Susan Tilley, Solicitor and Mediator. Do men and women experience mediation in different ways and emerge from the process with different outcomes by virtue of their gender difference? Does the gender...

Margaret Hatwood, Associate, Thomas Eggar Solicitors. The Family Proceedings Rules 1991 were amended last year by the Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2006 (SI 2006/352) (the 2006 Rules) to limit...

Nick Wikeley, Professor of Law, University of Southampton. Payment of child support is often viewed by parents as a precondition for child contact. However, it is a longstanding legal principle that,...

Christine Piper, Brunel University. When sentencing decisions are made in relation to children and young people, welfare considerations are relatively weak against the force of the primary objective...

David Ryden, Local Authority Solicitor. In the first part of this article, published in March [2007] Fam Law, the author considered recent high profile cases involving infant deaths and the impact of...

Timothy Hanson and Jean-Marie Renouf, Hanson Renouf Barristers and Advocates, Jersey. When can an English court order affecting a Jersey trust be enforced in Jersey? The Trusts (Amendment No 4)...

Kathryn Hollingsworth, Queen's College, University of Cambridge. What is the correct approach to the treatment of children in the youth justice system? The family courts presume that the child is...

Keith Schilling, Senior Partner, Schillings, and Miranda Fisher, Solicitor, Charles Russell LLP. Following on from Part 1 of this article in March [2007] Fam Law the Consultation Paper Confidence and...

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