1st Edition
Children & the Law Shaping the Modern Welfare Principle in the British Isles
By Kerry O'Halloran
Copyright 2023
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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Balancing a child’s welfare interests and rights so as to ensure recognition and respect for his or her autonomous identity, while facilitating family unity, has become a major challenge for modern family law. This book, following on from The Principle of the Welfare of the Child: A History , examines, contrasts, and compares the response of England and Wales and Ireland to that challenge. It... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
Moving away from a traditional interpretation of welfare
1 Children: Their welfare interests and the law
2 Advocates for change
PART II
Shaping the modern welfare principle
3 Domestic influences
4 International influences
PART III
Profiling contemporary jurisdictional experiences of welfare
5 England and Wales
6 Ireland
PART IV
Jurisdictional analysis of a child’s welfare/rights: A thematic approach
7 Themes and a comparative jurisdictional analysis
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kerry O’Halloran, recently retired, has for 13 years been Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT, Australia.
