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The voice of the child in private law proceedings: time to rethink the approach
No full textBased on a presentation to the Court Service Family Law Seminar in October 2009, this article focuses on the needs of those children and young people caught up in the stresses of private law disputes, drawing on the research findings of the 10 year (1996-2006) Cardiff University Children in Divorce Research Programme. The author asserts that in the present economic crisis most of these children will receive less priority than those children subject to public law proceedings, commenting that in the context of the coming election and potential cuts in public expenditure it is possible that in future the government may expect families themselves to pay for their involvement with the family justice system in private family law proceedings. The article covers the consequences for the family justice system of the aftermath of recession, key messages from the Cardiff Children in Divorce Research Programme, how to accommodate the messages for reform which emerged from the research interviews with children and their parents, and the challenge for the recently announced comprehensive review of the family justice system
Pathways to adoption:from long and winding road to obstacle course
No full textAn analysis of reforms to adoption under the Adoption and Children Act 2002, and how they have been interpreted in the courts focusing on fairness, risk and delay issues which the reforms were intended to resolve. It concludes that adoption can still work unfairly in relation each of the parties in the adoption triangle, parents, children and adopters, and remains prone to delay
The Development of Child Protection Across International Borders for Children at Risk of Harm
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The Development of Child Protection Across International Borders for Children at Risk of Harm
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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