Law : Domestic Relations

Making Law for Families is the result of a workshop organized by Mavis Maclean and held between May 26 and June 2,1999, at the international Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Onati, Spain. This book analyzes the concept of the family in the context of increasing challenges and questions created by multicultural societies in ever more complicated international and transnational legal contexts. How is the family defined across cultural and national divides? To what extent and under what conditions should any particular state intervene? The collected essays in this volume seek to answer these and other difficult questions through grounded empirical research and insightful appreciation of how political systems function in various countries. An underlying concern is to explore to what extent and under what terms will the family endure in the future as a basic unit of social management and control. This book is part of the Oñati International Series in Law and Society. more...

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This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation for practitioners and scholars in social work and law. Drawing on a wide cross-disciplinary theoretical literature and on the author's extensive and continuing practice experience, it encompasses developments in policy, research and practice in the UK and beyond. The third edition has been fully updated to incorporate legal and policy developments, innovations in research and practice and new sociological and philosophical perspectives. more...

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Praise for the first edition:. 'An excellent, comprehensive and thoughtful guide to the rights, powers, and duties of nearest relatives under the Mental Health Act. This is the definitive work on the subject.'. - Phil Fennell, Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School. 'This intelligent and comprehensive analysis is a welcome addition to the currently scant literature in this area.'. - Journal of Mental Health Law. 'There can hardly be a professional concerned with MeHA 1983 and its practical application in daily practice who will not benefit from having this book to hand... '. - New Law Journal. 'Hewitt looks first at the development of the role of nearest relative, where it is now, the problems it presents and how these are likely to be resolved…The rules are comprehensively worked through and the examples clear.'. - Tony Eaton, Solicitor, Brent Community Law Centre. When a person is subject to the Mental Health Act, many of his or her principal rights are taken away. It is the function of the nearest relative to compensate for that loss. This fully updated second edition explains how the nearest relative is identified, and how in some cases he or she might be displaced. It also contains a wealth of new case examples and illustrative scenarios, providing a succinct discussion of each significant case and incorporating all the very latest changes to the Mental Health Act. The Nearest Relative Handbook will be an invaluable aid to those who find themselves in a professional relationship with a nearest relative, to those who are or wish to be a nearest relative and to anyone needing to make sense of the relevant statutory provisions. more...

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Suitable for academics and family lawyers, this volume brings together research from the USA, Central, North Western and Southern Europe, and Australia on the nature and importance of children's relationships with parents after parental separation, and on the range of professional interventions which support them through these difficult times. more...

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This text provides a basic practical guide through the Children Act 1989 and its subordinate legislation, case law, guidance and social work practice including equal opportunities, the Human Rights Act 1998, the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. more...

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