New Zealand Law Review - Published Issues - 2006 - Issue 1

Issue 1
 

Table of Contents

  • Judges Are Human Too: Conversation Between the Judge and a Child as a Means of Giving Effect to Section 6 of the Care of Children Act 2004
    By Pauline Tapp

    This article argues that a ‘team approach’ is required if the Family Court is to give effect to the legislative directives of the Care of Children Act 2004: (1) to regard the welfare and best interests of the particular child in his or her particular circumstances as first and paramount; and (2) to take account of any views the child has had a reasonable opportunity to express. Case analysis is used to trace the changing practice of conversations between the judge and children as one means of complying with these directives.

  • Administrative Law
    By Michael Taggart

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