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  • Child Rights Delegation to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories
    Barristers from 4 Brick Court involved in 2011 Child Rights Delegation to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.  
  • New members of Chambers
    The chambers of Miss Janet Mitchell are pleased to welcome  Miss Haylee O Brien, Miss Helen Davey and Miss Lucy Ann Dale.
  • Family Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year
    Congratulations to Lorna Cservenka of Hanne & Co for winning this years's award for Family Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year! Click on the news item for links to further information.
  • Training Events
    Members of chambers have recently been involved in presenting another 1 day training course for Jordans, a course on the Court of Protection as well as an in-house seminar on developments in key areas of family law and a webinar on hair alcohol testing.  If you would like to request a seminar or suggest a topic please contact us through the Contact page.
  • New Members
    Chambers is pleased to announce that Bibi Badejo and Natasha March have joined chambers on the successful completion of their pupillage and to welcome David Bannocks(formerly of 2 Dr J).

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Top > Family > Research into family issues (see also social work)

Link Icon BUBL Link

[[BUBL LINK]] is the name of a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. Links are checked and fixed each month. LINK stands for Libraries of Networked Knowledge.

Link Icon CA 1989 research - Julia Brophy

Julia Brophy's 2006 report reviews empirical studies of child care proceedings, and was commissioned as a briefing paper for the Child Care Proceedings Review. Key findings include the seriousness of the cases which come before the courts, involving vulnerable parents often with health problems and chaotic lifestyles. The proceedings included inquisitorial features, ie Practice Directions and Protocols. Most children were in a settled placement within 12 months of the hearing.

Link Icon Centre for Research on the Child and Family

Based at the University of East Anglia, this centre is carrying out a large number of research projects on family issues.

Link Icon Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is the largest independent social policy research and development charity and this is a useful site for both new and older research findings in family issues.

Link Icon Policy Library

Huge database of publications on family policy and issues relating to children updated daily. There is also a membership option.

Link Icon Psychlinx

Website giving daily articles published in Psychiatric journals (and links to journals) and free subscription to email alerter of articles. Obviously primarily aimed at health care professionals but good links and access to medical dictionary if you sign in. All sorts of related health sites within the MDLinx group.

Link Icon Research In Practice

This site concerns social work research and produces very useful updaters.

Link Icon Social Science Information Gateway

This gateway site aims to provide selected, high quality internet resources for researches and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. The site is full of useful links and research findings.