Parental Responsibility in UK Law
- Parental Responsibility
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Withdrawal of Parental Responsibility: Lost Authority and a Lost Opportunity
This comment examines Re D (Withdrawal of Parental Responsibility), the first reported Court of Appeal decision on withdrawal of parental responsibility pursuant to section 4(2A) of the Children Ac...
- Adoption Applications And Parental Responsibility
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“Yes, I can still parent. Until I die, he will always be my son”: Parental responsibility in the wake of child incarceration
This paper examines what parental responsibility means when an adolescent child is sent to prison, where the traditional parenting relationship seemingly ends and parens patriae or penal control co...
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Towards Good Practice in Juvenile Justice Policy in the Commonwealth
... ... @@3. Key Issues ... @@@3.1 Ages of criminal responsibility, prosecution and adulthood ... 3. There are differences in the age ... @@@3.12 Encouraging parental responsibility ... 15. There is little to suggest that there are ... ...
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Failure to Protect Girls from Female Genital Mutilation
Whilst FGM had been a crime in the UK for over 2 decades, over 60, 000 girls continued to be mutilated. In 2015 the UK took its international obligations to protect girls from such physical harm mo...... ... This article focus es on the parental respo n- sibility to protecttheir daughter from harm and their crimi nal ... the failure to protect a child, for which one has parental responsibility, from FGM. Our proposal was that such an amendment would include the ... ...
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Truancy and the Prosecution of Parents: An Unfair Burden on Mothers?
This article considers the development and use of the law regulating the prosecution of parents under section 444 of the Education Act 1996, in the broader context of legislation and policy initiat...... ... policy initia- tives conc erned with the gov ernance of parental resp onsibility ... It explor es the ways in which the power to prosec ute ... , abo ve all else, with the governance of par ental responsibility. The compr ehensive bo dy of newpowers includes , interalia , parenting ... ...
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The exercise of parental care of children born out of wedlock and the ECtHR: Reflections on Paparrigopoulos v. Greece
This contribution analyses the recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Paparrigopoulos v. Greece and examines its implications for cross-border surrogacy in Europe. This judgment i...... ... held that there was noreasonable relationship of proportionality between the preclusion of the applicant’s exercise of par-ental responsibility and the aim pursued, which had been to protect the best interests of childrenborn out of wedlock. Finally, this case note critiques the ... ...
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The exercise of parental care of children born out of wedlock and the ECtHR: Reflections on Paparrigopoulos v. Greece
This contribution analyses the recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Paparrigopoulos v. Greece and examines its implications for cross-border surrogacy in Europe. This judgment i...... ... held that there was noreasonable relationship of proportionality between the preclusion of the applicant’s exercise of par-ental responsibility and the aim pursued, which had been to protect the best interests of childrenborn out of wedlock. Finally, this case note critiques the ... ...
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A review of the developing law on residence, contact, prohibited steps and specific issue orders under section 8 of the Children Act 1989
This article reviews the development over the last 20 years of the section 8 powers under the Children Act 1989. In particular, it examines residence, especially shared residence, contact, prohibit...... ... Residence orders have been used to allocate parental responsibility, which was not intended, and shared care arrangements have ... ...
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