At the beginning of September 2014, the Children’s Rights Commissioner published a report entitled The Impact of Legal Aid Changes on Children since April 2013. It used hard hitting language to describe the fact that many teenagers and vulnerable young adults had been ‘abandoned to hostile bureacracies.’ The view was expressed that they had been denied […]
The tragic case of the couple who took their sick child out of hospital because they were unhappy with his medical care had me reaching for my law books. A European arrest warrant saw them incarcerated in a Spanish jail, but what was the crime that they had allegedly committed? It is not against the […]
In English law there is no specific criminal offence of domestic violence. This does seem odd given the plethora of pressure groups and the recognition that under any analysis domestic violence is now a major problem in this country. The situation might soon change if calls for a new offence of domestic violence (punishable by up to […]
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