Professor Norrie's Commentaries on Family Law
Kenneth Norrie
Abstract
This book is a miscellany of short commentaries on a disparate range of issues relating to (primarily Scottish) family law. It is a collected reprinting of commentaries over the course of almost 12 years in, first, the Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly and, latterly, the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. The book contains short updates for most of the commentaries. Though each commentary provides a snap-shot of the law at a particular time, their collection into a whole is designed to reveal a subject very much in a state of flux. The 12 years between 1999 and 2011 effected a remarkabl ... More
This book is a miscellany of short commentaries on a disparate range of issues relating to (primarily Scottish) family law. It is a collected reprinting of commentaries over the course of almost 12 years in, first, the Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly and, latterly, the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland. The book contains short updates for most of the commentaries. Though each commentary provides a snap-shot of the law at a particular time, their collection into a whole is designed to reveal a subject very much in a state of flux. The 12 years between 1999 and 2011 effected a remarkable change not only in the rules of family law but in our very understanding of what family law was for. This is seen most obviously, but by no means solely, in the law's responses to same-sex families: one commentary from 1999 describes the struggle in Canadian courts to recognise a same-sex couple as equivalent to a cohabiting opposite-sex couple; a later commentary from 2010 presages the advent in Scotland of the opening of marriage to same-sex couples.
Keywords:
Scottish Family Law,
Parent and child,
Marriage and civil partnership
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781845861193 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2015 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781845861193.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Kenneth Norrie, author
Professor, Law School, University of Strathclyde
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