| Description |
1 online resource (405 p.) |
| Series |
Bloomsbury Family Law Ser |
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Bloomsbury Family Law Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Statutory Instruments -- Table of EU Law -- Table of International Law -- Table of Cases -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 CHILDREN PROCEEDINGS AND THE RULE OF LAW -- Clarity in family law -- Judges and the rule of law -- Extra-judicial discussion and debate -- 2 RULES OF EVIDENCE: SOME NOTES -- Rules of evidence -- Evidence at a hearing -- Written statements and affidavits: evidence and forms of hearing -- Content of statements and affidavits -- Hearsay in children proceedings -- 3 STRUCTURE OF THE LAW -- Statute law -- Common law -- Law and discretion |
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4 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION AND QUASI-DELEGATED LEGISLATION -- Delegated legislation and court rules -- Practice directions -- Practice guidance, guidelines, notes and protocols -- 5 PRECEDENT, STARE DECISIS AND RATIO -- Rules of precedent -- Inherent jurisdiction of the high court -- 6 STRAWS IN THE WIND -- Vulnerable witnesses and children -- Complainants as to alleged domestic abuse -- European union withdrawal -- 2 MEANING OF 'CHILD': LAW AND REALITY -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 'Child': meaning and a child's role in proceedings -- 2 ACTUAL AGE -- Child's biological age -- Age and maturity |
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3 CHILD'S ROLE IN PROCEEDINGS -- Participation and evidence in proceedings -- Party to proceedings and legal representation -- 4 AGE AND UNDERSTANDING -- The reality of the child's views, human development and social change -- Gillick: consent to contraceptive advice for child under 16 -- Contraceptive advice to a child under 16: whose judgment? -- Parental control against child's independence -- 'Understanding and intelligence' -- Gillick and confidentiality -- 5 CONFIDENTIALITY AND CONSENT -- Medical guidance -- Communication by doctor with parents |
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Child confidentiality and 2004 medical guidance -- GMC Guidance 2017 -- 3 CHILD'S EVIDENCE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Children giving evidence in family proceedings -- Children's evidence -- 2 CHILD'S EVIDENCE IN PROCEEDINGS -- Evidence from a child -- Evidence in children proceedings -- evidence of children -- Evidence of child witness -- competence -- 3 CHILD'S EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS -- Eligibility for assistance -- Special measures directions -- Special provisions for child witnesses -- Special measures in family proceedings -- 4 CHILD AS WITNESS OF FACT IN CHILDREN PROCEEDINGS |
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Introduction -- Case management and a child's evidence -- Child's evidence and a fair trial -- Guidelines on child's evidence -- 5 CHILDREN'S EVIDENCE IN COURT PROCEEDINGS -- Child witnesses and fairness -- Child witnesses and children proceedings -- 6 ACHIEVING BEST EVIDENCE -- Achieving best evidence: Guidance -- The ABE Guidance and child interviews -- Special measures -- Consent of child and parents -- 7 SPECIAL MEASURES AND CHILDREN PROCEEDINGS -- Child's evidence and existing procedure -- Questions by the judge -- APPENDIX |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Working Party of the Family Justice Council Guidelines December 2011 |
| Subject |
Child witnesses -- Great Britain
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Child witnesses.
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Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526503190 |
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1526503190 |
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