Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (4th edn)
Joanna Miles, Rob George, and Sonia Harris-Short
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: civil partnership after R (Steinfeld and Keidan) (2018); divorce law following Owens v Owens (2018) and the government’s consultation on reform; domestic abuse, including consultation ahead of the draft Domestic Abuse Bill and forced marriage; rights under the ECHR and UNCRC in children proceedings; surrogacy following Re Z (A Child) (No 2) (2016); child arrangements orders; specific issue and prohibited steps orders, including relocation law; local authority voluntary accommodation following Williams v London Borough of Hackney (2018). There is a new chapter dedicated to property and financial issues after the breakdown of relationships other than marriage and civil partnership. The introductory chapter, supported by materials on the Online Resources, considers some of the contemporary challenges faced by the family justice system.
Keywords:
family law,
marriage,
cohabitation,
alternative families,
divorce,
domestic abuse,
parental responsibility,
child welfare,
child protection,
adoption
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Aug 2019
- Print ISBN-13:
- 9780198811848
- Published online:
- Sep 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1093/he/9780198811848.001.0001
© J. Miles, R. George, and S. Harris-Short 2019
Authors
Joanna Miles,
author
University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Rob George,
author
Associate Professor of Family Law, University College London
Sonia Harris-Short,
author
Former Professor of Law, University of Birmingham
