Children & the Law: Shaping the Modern Welfare Principle in the British Isles

Kerry O'Halloran (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)

Children & the Law: Shaping the Modern Welfare Principle in the British Isles
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 December 2022
Pages
312
ISBN
9781032214894

Children & the Law: Shaping the Modern Welfare Principle in the British Isles

Kerry O'Halloran (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)

Balancing a child’s welfare interests and rights so as to ensure recognition and respect for his or her autonomous identity, while facilitating family unity, has become a major challenge for modern family law. This book, following on from The Principle of the Welfare of the Child: A History, examines, contrasts and compares the response of England & Wales and Ireland to that challenge. It does so by applying the same matrix of indicators to explore, in each country, the distinction between welfare interests and rights and to trace changes in the balance between them. By profiling the nations in accordance with the same indicators it reveals important jurisdictional differences in the extent to which welfare interests or rights determine how the law is currently applied to children.

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