Private Children: A broad church

Josh Green examines the courts’ approach to disagreements between parents as to religious upbringing ‘The welfare of the child will be the court’s primary concern, the aim being to arrive at a decision that is ultimately in the child’s best interests.’The prickly issue of religion and parenting was thrust into the full glare of the …
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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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Children: Opposing views

Mandeep Gill assesses the Court of Appeal decision in Re G (Children) (Education: Religious upbringing) [2012] Welfare extends to and embraces everything that relates to the child’s development as a human being and to the child’s present and future life as a human being. In Re G (Children) (Education: Religious upbringing) [2012] the Court of …
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