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
• 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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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

ASSISTANT EDITORS

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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[2012] CFLQ

Issue 1 (March 2012)

ARTICLES

Recession, repossession and family welfare by Beverley A Searle

Household indebtedness and separation in Britain: evidence from the Families and Children Survey by Sarah Bridges and Richard Disney

On the rocks: recession-related life problems and relationship stability
by Pascoe Pleasence and Nigel J Balmer

Shared commitment, interdependency and property relations: a socio-legal project for cohabitation by Simone Wong

Human trafficking in the UK: a focus on children by Jackie Jones

CASE COMMENTARY

Doing (linguistic) violence to prevent (domestic) violence? Yemshaw v Hounslow LBC in the Supreme Court by C J S Knight

Reviewing relocation? Re W (Relocation: Removal Outside Jurisdiction) [2011] EWCA Civ 345 and K v K (Relocation: Shared Care Arrangement) [2011] EWCA Civ 793 by Rob H George

BOOK REVIEWS

Landmark Cases in Family Law, Stephen Gilmore, Jonathan Herring and Rebecca Probert (eds) by Simon Edward Rowbotham

FREE SAMPLE COPY AVAILABLE

If you would like a free hard copy sample issue of the [2011] CFLQ Issue No 2. click here and send us your name, address and telephone number. Also, a free PDF sample issue download is available on this page: simply click on the "SAMPLE ISSUE" tab above, enter your details and proceed to download a PDF copy. The previous issue contains the following articles:

• 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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