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Book review: Practical Guide to Parental Alienation in Private & Public Law Children Cases

07 October 2022 / David Emmerson OBE
Issue: 7997 / Categories: Features , Family , Child law
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"It is both a toolkit and a very good reference guide for practitioners faced with cases which have the unfortunate element of parental alienation"
  • Author: Sam King KC and Frankie Shama
  • Publisher: Law Brief Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781913715182
  • RRP: £79.99

This is a welcome addition to the developing literary catalogue dealing with parental alienation. It has the advantage of being modestly short—concise but appropriately so. The authors are barristers at 4 Paper Buildings and have a fine history of handling parental alienation cases. It is both a toolkit and a very good reference guide for practitioners faced with cases which have the unfortunate element of parental alienation. It is also written in a style that many clients themselves could usefully follow.

There are chapters dealing with the legal and psychiatric definition of parental alienation. A particularly good chapter considers the broad principles regarding child arrangements in Children Act 1989 proceedings generally, which includes an excellent

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