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Book review: European Human Rights and Family Law

02 September 2010 / Geraldine Morris
Issue: 7431 / Categories: Blogs , Human rights
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Human rights issues have been increasingly creeping into the nooks and crannies of family law over the last decade.

European Human Rights and Family Law

Author: Shazia Choudhry & Jonathan Herring

Publisher: Hart Publishing (27 April 2010)

ISBN-13: 978-1841131757, £55.00

Human rights issues have been increasingly creeping into the nooks and crannies of family law over the last decade. Save in public children proceedings, human rights arguments are still relatively rare in the lower courts. On appeal however Convention rights often form the mainstay of an appellant’s grounds, particularly in proceedings involving children. Other family law publications include detailed commentary on human rights issues and family law, but for those with a particular interest in the subject, European Human Rights and Family Law brings together the relevant law as it impacts upon practitioners, and the more theoretical for the academic reader, in one volume.

This book considers not only the more commonly encountered areas in which human rights will arise, but also those areas in which the impact

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