Subjects:

Family Law

A collection of essays addressing the fundamental issues facing the family justice system - from the prospects for a new divorce law to the need for legal recognition of new forms of family relationship, from the need to provide better means of hearing the voice of the child to the reality about disputes about contact, from domestic violence to ancillary relief, from the impact of medical technology to the imapct of ethnic diversity, and the likely impact of the rights-based approach heralded by the coming into force of the Human Rights Act.

The book represents an opportunity to assess the state of the family justice system and to suggest how the system and the underlying law should change to reflect society's needs in the 21st century.