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• Title:Making family law : a socio-legal account of legislative process in England and Wales, 1985-2010 / Mavis Maclean with Jacek Kurczewski.
  
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• Author/Creator:Maclean, Mavis.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Kurczewski, Jacek.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2011.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD750 .M325 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Domestic relations--England.
  Domestic relations--Wales.
  
• Description:x, 122 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-116) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781849462273 (hardback)
  1849462275 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  What is Law-making?
  Who Makes Law?
  Purpose and Limitation of Law-making
  Legislative Context
  Anglo-Polish Comparisons
  Case Studies in the Reform of English Family Law, 1829-2009
  What Constitutes Legislative Success?
  2. Successful Codification: The Making of the Children Act (England and Wales) 1989
  Public and Private Family Law
  Children Act (England and Wales) 1989
  Concluding Observations
  3. Prime Ministerial Intervention: The Child Support Act 1991
  Background
  Development of the Child Support Act
  Content of the Child Support Bill
  Passage of the Act
  Looking Back at the Child Support Act
  4. Campaigns and Tactics: Batman and Robin and the Children Adoption Act 2006
  Background
  5. Opening up the Family Courts: The Media, the Ministry and the Children, Schools and Families Act 2010
  Background
  Consultation Processes
  Detailed Policy Work: Moving Slowly Forward
  Progress?
  Success?
  6. Reflections
  Introduction
  Barriers to Achieving Effective Legislation
  Limitations on the Effectiveness of Legislative Change when the Process has been Completed
  Challenges to Legislative Change
  Adaptation to Legislation and Normative Change over Time
  From Social Problem to Law
  How Much New Law Do We Need?.