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  • Opposing return of children to jurisdiction

    The Court of Appeal recently ruled in an appeal in which two members of chambers appeared. Marianna Hildyard QC and Kieran Pugh represented the mother and successfully appealed against the decision of a Section 9 Judge who had ordered the return of a child lawfully removed from the jurisdiction. 

    See Re: S (A Child) [2010] EWCA 465

     

     

  • Advocacy In Childcare Public Law Proceedings 2010

    Jacqui Gilliatt & a team from 4 Brick Court will be presenting this 1 day seminar for Jordans on Tuesday 30th March 2010 at a Central London venue.  For more information & booking information see the Jordans website entry.

  • Bracewell Memorial Essay Competition

    Ella Shaw was the runner up in the 2009 Bracewell Memorial Essay Competition. Read her award winning entry here.

  • Podcasts

    Podcasts online with Jacqui Gilliatt & Ella Shaw.

     

     Jacqui Gilliatt has recently done a podcast with John Bolch of Family Lore & Family Lore Focus.  Click to link to Jacqui Gilliatt's podcast.

     

    Jacqui's pupil, Ella Shaw, has also been podcasting with blawger CharonQC and her podcast is here

     

    In case you missed it Jacqui was also interviewed in November by Natasha Phillips of the Divorce Manual blog.

  • Standard of Proof in Care Proceedings

    The House of Lords ruled on 11th June 2008 in an appeal in which three members of  4 Brick Court Chambers appeared before their Lordships on 19th and 20th May 2008. Marianna Hildyard QC and Isabelle Watson represented the Respondent father and Stuart Fuller (led by Stephen Cobb QC of 1 Garden Court Chambers) represented the Appellant children (through their Children’s Guardian). CAFCASS intervened.

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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.