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Children, the Law and the Welfare Principle: Perspectives from Australia & New Zealand book cover

1st Edition

Children, the Law and the Welfare Principle Perspectives from Australia & New Zealand

By Kerry O'Halloran Copyright 2024
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge
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This book contrasts and compares the different application of the law relating to the welfare interests of children in Australia and New Zealand including, respectively, the Indigenous and Māori children of those countries. It does so by applying the same matrix of indicators to explore jurisdictional differences between welfare interests and rights in the contexts of public family law (civil –... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I
Background

1 Concepts, constructs and cultural context

Part II
Australia

2 Policy, principles, legislation and courts

3 The welfare principle in contemporary practice: public family law; civil and criminal jurisdiction

4 The welfare principle in contemporary practice: private family law and hybrid proceedings

Part III
New Zealand

5 Policy, principles, legislation and courts

6 The welfare principle in contemporary practice: public family law; civil and criminal jurisdictions

7 The welfare principle in contemporary practice: private family law and hybrid proceedings

Part IV
The Indigenous Children of Australia and the New Zealand

8 International legal framework

9 The welfare principle and Indigenous children in Australia

10 The welfare principle and Māori children in New Zealand

Part V
Themes of Commonality and Difference

11 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.

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