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.
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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.
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978-0-19-826899-4 (9780198268994)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Marriage: Weddings; Marriage - the Ground Rules; Legal Consequences of Marriage - Children, Property, Finance, etc; Relationships Outside Marriage. Divorce and other matrimonial litigation in 1900: The Background to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857; Divorce Under the 1857 Act; Other Litigation in the Divorce Court; Family Justice for the Poor - the Magistrates' Matrimonial Jurisdiction. Reform of Divorce and Other Matrimonial Litigation - 1900-1937: From the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes to the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division; The Campaign for Reform of the Divorce Law - 1900-1937; Improving Access to Family Justice 1900-1937. Marriage Breakdown and the Family Justice System in Post-War Britain: Divorce Under the Herbert Act; Meeting the Demand - the Courts and Family Justice 1938-1970; The Demand for Reform - the 1956 Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce; The Success of the Campaign for Reform - the Divorce Reform Act 1969; The Courts and the Family Justice System in Post-War Britain. Children, the Family and the State: Legal Parentage; Legitimacy and Bastardy; Parents and Children; The State, Parents and Children.
