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Dictionary of Public Children Law 2024

Dictionary of Public Children Law 2024

Author: His Honour Judge Christopher Simmonds; District Judge Francis Cassidy; Lucy Reed KC; Gill Honeyman; Andrew Pack
Publisher: Class Legal
ISBN: 9781801610995
Published In: March 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The Dictionary of Public Children Law is a unique reference guide to the key concepts, cases and practice of public children law.

Presented in an easy to use A-Z format, with cross-references where required, each entry acts like a practice note on the topic setting out the essential law, key cases and practice points. The book distills the combined experience of the authors with the aim of providing a concise, practical handbook focusing on the most important issues and practice points likely to be encountered by anybody involved in a public children law case.

Who would find this book useful?

Family law solicitors, barristers or legal executives covering public children matters
Family Court Judges
Experts, social workers and professionals involved in public law proceedings
Parties, Litigants in person and anyone who becomes involved in court proceedings.
Law students

The Dictionary of Public Children Law is the sister publication of the Dictionary of Private Children Law, launched in 2021, the Dictionary of Financial Remedies, launched in 2013, and the Dictionary of TLATA and Inheritance Act Claims, launched in 2023.

Foreword to the first edition

Introduction to the 2024 edition

26.

Weeks and the Extension of Proceedings

Adoption Orders

Agency Decision Maker

Allocation, Gatekeeping and Transfer

Appeals

Assessing Witness Evidence

Assessments of Carers Living Abroad

Assessments of Parents

Bundles

Capacity

Care Order

Care Plans

Child Assessment Orders

Children Giving Evidence

Children in Need – section 17 Children Act 1989

Children Meeting Judges

Children’s Guardians and the Representation and Participation of Children

Confidentiality

Contact with Children in Local Authority Care

Costs

Delay

Deprivation of Liberty of Children

Designated Local Authority

Discharge of Care Orders and Discharge/Variation of Supervision Orders

Disclosure into Proceedings

Disclosure or Publication of Family Court Information

Domestic Abuse

Drafting Threshold Documents

Education Supervision Order

Emergency Protection Order (EPO)

Evidence

Expert Evidence

Fact-Finding Hearings

Family Assistance Order

Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC)

Human Rights

Identifying Perpetrators

Immigration Issues

Independent Reviewing Officer

Injuries to Children

Interim Orders

Judgments (Analysis and Response)

Judicial Bias and Recusal

Jurisdiction

Kinship Care

Leave to Oppose Adoption

Legal Aid

Litigants in Person

Local Authority Duty to Investigate Pursuant to Section 47 CA 1989

The ‘No Order Principle’

Parental Responsibility and Parentage

Participation and Vulnerability

Parties, Interveners, Joinder and Notice

Permanence Provisions (Limiting the Court’s Enquiring at Final Hearing)

Placement of Children Outside England and Wales – in Scotland or Northern Ireland

Placement of Children Outside England and Wales – Outside the United Kingdom

Placement Orders

Police Protection

Port Alerts and Tipstaff Orders (Passport, Location and Collection Orders)

Pre-Proceedings Process

Proportionality

Public Law Outline

Public Law Portal

Radicalisation

Reconsideration of Earlier Findings

Recordings

Recovery Orders

Regulatory Approval of Carers

Related Criminal Proceedings

Removal of Children under Interim Orders

Section 20 – Accommodation

Section 37 Children Act 1989

Section 38(6) Directions

Section 91(14) Orders

Section 98 Children Act 1989

Secure Accommodation

Sexual Abuse

Social Media

Special Guardianship Orders

Split Hearings (Finding of Fact Hearings)

Statements

Substance Testing

Summary Dismissal

Supervision Order

Threshold Criteria

Transfer of Proceedings Outside the Jurisdiction

Translation

Transparency, Media Attendance and Reporting

Wardship and the Inherent Jurisdiction

Welfare Checklist

Withdrawal of a Public Law Application

Witness Evidence and Compellability

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