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The voice of the child: Children’s “rights” in family proceedings

Speech of Sir Mark Potter President of the Family Division

04/05/2008

 

Sir Mark Potter considered the right of the child not merely to be the object of proceedings, but to be heard within them.

He looked at practices and guidelines from international jurisdictions, and examples which - he suggested - England and Wales might adopt.

 

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