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Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (5th edn)  

Rob GeorgeProfessor of Law and Policy, University College LondonClose
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Sharon ThompsonReader in Law, Cardiff UniversityClose
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Joanna MilesEmerita Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge, formerly Professor of Family Law and Policy, University of CambridgeClose
Published in Print: 13 July 2023 Published Online:August 2023
https://doi.org/10.1093/he/9780192865687.001.0001
ISBN: 9780192865687
Publisher:Oxford University Press

Abstract

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. Drawing on extensive experience, the authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources. The book’s principal aims are to provide readers with a thorough understanding of family law in a way that stimulates critical reflection. Readers are encouraged to consider how and why the law has developed as it has, what policies it is seeking to pursue, whether it achieves the right balance between the rights and interests of individual family members and the wider public interest, and how it operates in practice. This edition provides updates and revised discussion on: the advent of mixed-sex civil partnership; a thoroughly overhauled chapter on divorce law, in light of the reform effected by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020; new laws relating to domestic abuse, introduced by the Domestic Abuse Act 2021; a revised analysis of Gillick competence and children’s autonomy rights in light of recent case law; and detailed consideration of the latest developments in relation to contact and domestic abuse after Re H-N (Domestic Abuse: Findings of Fact Hearings) [2021] EWCA Civ 448. Updated case law includes Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27, Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363, R (McConnell) v The Registrar General for England and Wales [2020] EWCA Civ 559, Re H-N (Domestic Abuse: Finding of Fact Hearings) [2021] EWCA Civ 448, Re H-W (Care Proceedings) [2022] UKSC 17, and Re A, B and C (Adoption: Notification of Fathers and Relatives) [2020] EWCA Civ 41.

Keywords:

family law, marriage and civil partnership, cohabitation, alternative families, divorce, domestic abuse, parental responsibility, child welfare, child protection, adoption

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