- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Westminster Statutes
- Table of Scottish Parliament Statutes
- Table of Westminster Statutory Instruments
- Table of Scottish Statutory Instruments
-
1 Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years in Context -
2 A Parliament that is Different? The law-Making Process in the Scottish Parliament -
3 Human Rights and People and Society -
4 Child and Family Law -
5 Culture -
6 Charity Law: An Issue of choice -
7 Local Government -
8 Housing -
9 Education: Could Do Better -
10 The Reform of the Scottish Judiciary -
11 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: An Exercise in Ad Hocery -
12 Juvenile Offending: Welfare or Toughness -
13 Evidence -
14 Property Law: How the World Changed at Martinmas -
15 Business -
16 Environment and Sustainable Development -
17 Transport - Index
Child and Family Law
Child and Family Law
Progress and Pusillanimity
- Chapter:
- (p.58) 4 Child and Family Law
- Source:
- Law Making and the Scottish Parliament
- Author(s):
Elaine E Sutherland
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter assesses what the Scottish Parliament has achieved in the light of the problems it was designed to solve; the promises held out for it by its creators; and the subject-specific goals of child and family law itself. It shows that the Scottish Parliament has been active and productive, passing a myriad of statutes devoted to the field and numerous others impacting significantly on aspects of it.
Keywords: Scottish Parliament, child law, family law
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Westminster Statutes
- Table of Scottish Parliament Statutes
- Table of Westminster Statutory Instruments
- Table of Scottish Statutory Instruments
-
1 Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years in Context -
2 A Parliament that is Different? The law-Making Process in the Scottish Parliament -
3 Human Rights and People and Society -
4 Child and Family Law -
5 Culture -
6 Charity Law: An Issue of choice -
7 Local Government -
8 Housing -
9 Education: Could Do Better -
10 The Reform of the Scottish Judiciary -
11 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: An Exercise in Ad Hocery -
12 Juvenile Offending: Welfare or Toughness -
13 Evidence -
14 Property Law: How the World Changed at Martinmas -
15 Business -
16 Environment and Sustainable Development -
17 Transport - Index