Subjects:

Family Law

Abandoned before Publication
This second edition of Family Law provides a comprehensive and accessible examination of this wide-ranging area. It includes coverage of all recent developments in both child law and the law of adult relationships and analyses the new themes which have emerged in both legislation and case law in the past three years.The book addresses both actual and potential developments in the law in relation to:-

• transsexuals
• human reproduction
• same sex partnerships
• married and cohabitants’ property
• undue influence
• domestic violence
• post-separation contact with children
• adoption
• non-accidental injury in care proceedings
• the EU impact on domestic law

All these areas have seen fundamental shifts of attitude, which have underlined the lack of a doctrine of precedent in family law. These changes of attitude have also highlighted the ongoing impact of practice and procedure, which has always tended to react more quickly than black letter law to social change, but which now necessitates a fundamental re-examination of principles previously accepted as an integral element of English family law.

The proposed single Family Court is likely to expedite this process.As a result this new edition has been reoriented away from older materials and cases, in favour of those which underline the essence of judicial thought processes in the development of more recently emerging trends. This emphasis will provide the contemporary student with everything he or she needs to critically examine the living subject area of family law.