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Children: Seen but not heard?
Josh McEvoy suggests that long-established principles regarding children giving evidence may at long last be followed by the courts ‘In principle, the approach to a child giving evidence in private children law proceedings should be the same as in public children care proceedings.’The right of a child to be heard within family law proceedings has …
Cases Referenced
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- Re D (A Child) (International Recognition) [2016] EWCA Civ 12
- Re D (A Child) [2016] UKSC 34
- Re E (A Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 473
- Re F (Children) [2016] EWCA Civ 546
- Re W (children) (abuse: oral evidence) [2010] EWCA Civ 57; [2010] UKSC 12