Private children: Maintaining a balance

Kayleigh Biswas asks whether orders restricting further applications in children proceedings are an underused mechanism, or a heavy-handed approach to conclude litigation ‘A barring order is an intrusion into the right of a party to bring proceedings and to be heard in connection with matters concerning their child.’ In circumstances where there is a history …
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Specific Issues: Hard choices

Emily Watson contemplates the courts’ power to limit the future exercise of parental responsibility ‘By allowing the mother to make that decision as to schooling alone in future, the court subjugated a more detailed consideration to the overall need of the children for certainty.’ The recent decision in EG v JG [2013] dealt with a …
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