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• Relocation, indeterminacy, and burden of proof: lessons from Canada by Susan B Boyd
• Practitioners’ views on children’s welfare in relocation disputes: comparing approaches in England and New Zealand by Robert H George
• Resolving relocation disputes: the ‘interventionist’ approach in Australia by Lisa Young
  
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• Shared residence: lessons from Sweden by Annika Newnham

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Jane Fortin, Professor of Law, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex
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Rebecca Bailey-Harris, Barrister and Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol
Tim Bateman, Reader in Youth Justice, University of Bedfordshire
Baroness Deech of Cumnor
Lady Justice Black, Court of Appeal
Baroness Hale of Richmond, Justice of the Supreme Court
Mary Hayes, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Sheffield
Joan Hunt, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Rosemary Hunter, Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent
Nigel Lowe, Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
Alistair MacDonald QC
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Sir James Munby, The President of the Family Division
Neil Perot, Solicitor
Christine Piper, Professor of Law, Brunel University

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[2013] CFLQ

Issue 1 (February 2013)

 
ARTICLES

• Sara Fovargue – 'Doctrinal incoherence or practical problem? Minor parents consenting to their offspring's medical treatment and involvement in research in England and Wales'
• Stuart Davis – 'Same-sex couples and the harmonisation of EU Matrimonial Property Regimes:  unjustifiable discrimination or missed opportunities?'
• Brian Sloan – 'Conflicting rights: English adoption law and the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child'
• Jens M Scherpe – 'A comparative overview of the treatment of non-matrimonial assets, indexation and value increases'

CASE COMMENTARY

• Chris Bevan - 'The role of intention in non-marriage cases post: Hudson v Leigh'

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