This collection of essays examines the process and problems of law reform with special reference to the development of family law. The text should demonstrate the different pressures and influences that affect the development of the law.
The focus is practical and the topics covered range from ancillary relief to child abuse. This book represents a unique opportunity to assess the current state of the family justice system and to suggest how the system and the underlying law should change to reflect society's needs in the 21st century.All proceeds from the sale of this book will be distributed to charities operating in the field of family and child welfare.
The law governing family relationships has changed dramatically in the course of the 20th century and this book - drawing extensively on both published and archival material and on legal as well as other sources - gives an account of the processes and problems of reform.
The main theme of this important new empirical study is that the law in practice, as it is observed by the social researcher, may differ greatly from the law as it is expressed in statute and in the reported decisions of the higher courts. In order to uncover 'the law in action' the social researcher has to delve deep, and ask of the lawyer engaged in resolving matrimonial disputes what is being done here?; why?; who gains?; who loses? In this way the authors of this book are able to lay bare an area of legal practice which has been oddly neglected in research and yet which is of central importance in the negotiation and adjudication of divorce disputes. This area of 'hidden' work is where the great majority of financial disputes are settled by bargaining between the parties' lawyers, the court not being called upon to perform any significant adjudicatory function. It is vital to understand how the 'hidden' area operates if only, as the authors attempt to show, it is solicitors' case handling (rather than judicially enunciated principle) which largely determines the outcome.
The North Pacific Project was established at the Institute for Marine Studies, University of Washington, in September 1976, and was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. This funding eventually covered the period September 1, 1976 to August 31, 1980. The Project seeks to identify and describe in detail the major marine policy problems of the North Pacific region. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
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