Overview
The law governing family relationships has changed dramatically in the course of the last 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. Much of the work of the courts was concerned with marriage and divorce, but there were also major changes in the legal position of married women and reform in all these areas was hotly controversial. The book also gives full accounts of how the law has dealt with the relationship between children and their families and the increasing involvement of the state in seeking to prevent abuse of children and providing for the needy. The book gives a revealing account of the processes of change and of the influence of pressure groups, civil servants, and judges as well as individual campaigners.
Full Product Details
Author: S.M. Cretney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 1.484kg
ISBN: 9780198268994
ISBN 10: 0198268998
Pages: 950
Publication Date: 01 June 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Cretney's book will not only be essential to all those who want to think about family law rather than just to practise it. It will also be valuable to lawyers in other fields, in particular because of the light which it casts upon the extraordinary way in which laws are made ... its value will extend well beyond the law to students of the social changes which those in family law reflect. Law Quarterly Review Cretney has produced a work on a century of family law, which will be consulted for centuries. It will be of critical value to those of us and our descendants who are interested in family law and need to understand its tortuous historical development in order, in our different roles, to combine to achieve its optimum improvement. Law Quarterly Review Book of the century ... will be of consuming interest, not merely to family lawyers but to everyone who seeks novel and illuminating insights into the social and political history of the last 150 years ... a staggering and triumphant achievement. The Hon Mr Justice Munby, Family Law, 2004 Stephen Cretney's dry, clear and unemotional style provides a welcome antidote to a world in which the outcome of family cases can drive men to dress as superheroes, climb courthouses and cranes, and bring the City to a standstill for six days. Justin Warshaw, Times Literary Supplement Few people are better qualified to write this history. Justin Warshaw, Times Literary Supplement One cannot fail to be impressed with [Cretney's] command of the subject.
Author Information
Stephen Cretney is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College Oxford. HEwas a practising solicitor in the City of London from his graduation until 1965. Thereafter he held academic posts, becoming Quarrell Fellow and Tutor in Law at Exeter College Oxford in 1969. Beween 1978 and 1984 he served as a Law Commissioner before becoming Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Bristol University.He has served on a number of official Committees dealing with legal matters.
