This journal contains essential articles and comment on all aspects of family and child law. It provides a unique multi-disciplinary forum for the publication of research material, analysis and commentary, edited by leading family law academics, supported by a distinguished editorial board and is a platform for discussion, debate and analysis of all the important issues in this constantly evolving area of law.

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• International family law
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• Relocation, indeterminacy, and burden of proof: lessons from Canada by Susan B Boyd
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• 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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Gillian Douglas, Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
Jane Fortin, Professor of Law, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex
Jonathan Herring, Fellow in Law, Exeter College, Oxford

CASE-LAW EDITOR

Stephen Gilmore, Senior Lecturer in Family Law, King’s College London

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Jo Miles, Fellow in Law, Trinity College, Cambridge
Daniel Monk, Senior Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck College, London

BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR

Rebecca Probert, Professor of Law, University of Warwick

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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 Liz Goldthorpe, Solicitor
Baroness Hale of Richmond, Justice of the Supreme Court
The Rt Hon Lady Justice Black
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
Anne-Marie Hutchinson, Solicitor
Nigel Lowe, Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
Mavis Maclean, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Munby
Christine Piper, Professor of Law, Brunel University
Richard White, Solicitor
Catherine Williams, Honorary Reader in Law, University of Sheffield

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[2011] CFLQ 429-546

Issue 4 (November 2011)

ARTICLES

Maximisation of minors’ capacity
by Emma Cave
Regulating adolescent sexuality: English and Scottish approaches compared
by James Chalmers
Lay intuitions about child support and marital status
by Ira M Ellman and Sanford L Braver
Child citizenship and agency as shaped by legal obligations
by Angela Campbell, Marissa Carnevale, Suzanne Jackson, Franco Carnevale, Delphine Collin-Vézina and Mary Ellen Macdonald

CASE COMMENTARY

Fairness, freedom and foreign elements – marital agreements in England and Wales after Radmacher v Granatino
by Jens M Scherpe
Safeguarding children and adults: much of a muchness? A Local Authority v A and B [2010] EWHC 978 (Fam)
by Jonathan Herring and Michael Dunn

BOOK REVIEWS

Cinders v Charming: A Personal Account of Domestic Violence and the Family Courts, Cristina Weds
by Helen Reece
Murder, Medicine and Motherhood, Emma Cunliffe
by Jane Brya

BOOKS RECEIVED

INDEX TO VOLUME 23

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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

• Relocation cases – the rhetoric and the reality of a child’s best interests – a view from the bottom of the world by Mark Henaghan

• Shared residence: lessons from Sweden by Annika Newnham

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