Sonia Harris‐Short
Biographic Data
| ID | 4979494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Harris‐Short |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris‐Short |
| SIGNATURE | SHORT S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Parental Responsibility
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter examines the concept of parental responsibility and its legal significance; the various legislative provisions dealing with who automatically holds parental responsibility, as well as how, and by whom, it may be acquired; the exercise of parental respo…
Ending Relationships
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter discusses the law on divorce and separation. It covers divorces in England and Wales; the nature, function, and limits of divorce law; a brief history of divorce law to 1969; the present law of divorce and judicial separation; evaluation of the current…
Family Relationships between Adults
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter first considers demographic data on family relationships in England and Wales, and then examines the treatment of ‘trans’ people in this area of family law; and the history of legal recognition of intimate relationships between parties of the same gend…
Fundamental Principles in the Law Relating to Children
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter, which focuses on alternative approaches to child-related disputes and their influence on English law, first considers the welfare principle and its central role in child law today. It addresses the problems and limitations of the principle, and then l…
Child Protection
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter examines the law on state intervention into family life where a child is considered to be ‘in need’ or at risk of significant harm. It discusses the competing approaches to state intervention and the principles underpinning the Children Act (CA) 1989; …
Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children
Contents: Preface Part I Introduction: Introduction. Part II Aboriginal Child Welfare in Australia and Canada: The colonization of Aboriginal children and families Reforming the Australian and Canadian child welfare systems: sensitization and accommodation. Part III Self-Government over Aboriginal Child Welfare: Lessons from Canada: The promise and risks of Aboriginal self-government over Aboriginal child welfare The right to self-government and …
Resisting the march towards 50/50 shared residence
In recent years, a normative model of equal shared parenting post-separation has become firmly entrenched in the minds of some policy makers and legal practitioners. This has been due, in no small part, to the high-profile campaign of fathers' rights groups. In attacking what they perceive as the gender bias inherent within the family justice system, fathers' rights groups have argued vociferously for a presumption in favour of shared residence p…
Making and Breaking Family Life
This article explores the extent to which the state's duties and responsibilities in the context of adoption are framed and reinforced by a rights‐based discourse. It argues that the human rights paradigm plays an invaluable role in the pre‐adoption process by identifying and imposing ever more exacting obligations on the state ‐ obligations which are currently not being fully met by the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The application of a rights…
An "identity crisis" in the international law of human rights? The challenge of reproductive cloning
Judicial Approaches to the Human Rights Act
The case law generated in just over two years' operation of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), enables stocktaking rather than definitive appraisal. 1 This article begins by recalling the markedly contrasting roles in United Kingdom law of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) before and after the HRA, the better to appreciate judicial approaches to, and use of, the HRA in the areas surveyed. The second part of the article focuses on judic…
Worlds Colliding
1University of Durham Worlds Colliding: Conservative Christians and the Law Rex J.Ahdar Ashgate Publishing 2001308Hardback£50.00
Resisting the march towards 50/50 shared residence
In recent years, a normative model of equal shared parenting post-separation has become firmly entrenched in the minds of some policy makers and legal practitioners. This has been due, in no small part, to the high-profile campaign of fathers' rights groups. In attacking what they perceive as the gender bias inherent within the family justice system, fathers' rights groups have argued vociferously for a presumption in favour of shared residence p…
Judicial Approaches to the Human Rights Act
The case law generated in just over two years' operation of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), enables stocktaking rather than definitive appraisal. 1 This article begins by recalling the markedly contrasting roles in United Kingdom law of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) before and after the HRA, the better to appreciate judicial approaches to, and use of, the HRA in the areas surveyed. The second part of the article focuses on judic…
Worlds Colliding
1University of Durham Worlds Colliding: Conservative Christians and the Law Rex J.Ahdar Ashgate Publishing 2001308Hardback£50.00
Judicial Approaches to the Human Rights Act
The case law generated in just over two years' operation of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), enables stocktaking rather than definitive appraisal. 1 This article begins by recalling the markedly contrasting roles in United Kingdom law of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) before and after the HRA, the better to appreciate judicial approaches to, and use of, the HRA in the areas surveyed. The second part of the article focuses on judic…
An "identity crisis" in the international law of human rights? The challenge of reproductive cloning
Making and Breaking Family Life
This article explores the extent to which the state's duties and responsibilities in the context of adoption are framed and reinforced by a rights‐based discourse. It argues that the human rights paradigm plays an invaluable role in the pre‐adoption process by identifying and imposing ever more exacting obligations on the state ‐ obligations which are currently not being fully met by the Adoption and Children Act 2002. The application of a rights…
Resisting the march towards 50/50 shared residence
In recent years, a normative model of equal shared parenting post-separation has become firmly entrenched in the minds of some policy makers and legal practitioners. This has been due, in no small part, to the high-profile campaign of fathers' rights groups. In attacking what they perceive as the gender bias inherent within the family justice system, fathers' rights groups have argued vociferously for a presumption in favour of shared residence p…
Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children
Contents: Preface Part I Introduction: Introduction. Part II Aboriginal Child Welfare in Australia and Canada: The colonization of Aboriginal children and families Reforming the Australian and Canadian child welfare systems: sensitization and accommodation. Part III Self-Government over Aboriginal Child Welfare: Lessons from Canada: The promise and risks of Aboriginal self-government over Aboriginal child welfare The right to self-government and …
Parental Responsibility
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter examines the concept of parental responsibility and its legal significance; the various legislative provisions dealing with who automatically holds parental responsibility, as well as how, and by whom, it may be acquired; the exercise of parental respo…
Ending Relationships
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter discusses the law on divorce and separation. It covers divorces in England and Wales; the nature, function, and limits of divorce law; a brief history of divorce law to 1969; the present law of divorce and judicial separation; evaluation of the current…
Family Relationships between Adults
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter first considers demographic data on family relationships in England and Wales, and then examines the treatment of ‘trans’ people in this area of family law; and the history of legal recognition of intimate relationships between parties of the same gend…
Fundamental Principles in the Law Relating to Children
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter, which focuses on alternative approaches to child-related disputes and their influence on English law, first considers the welfare principle and its central role in child law today. It addresses the problems and limitations of the principle, and then l…
Child Protection
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter examines the law on state intervention into family life where a child is considered to be ‘in need’ or at risk of significant harm. It discusses the competing approaches to state intervention and the principles underpinning the Children Act (CA) 1989; …
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Legislation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Family law (4 works) · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction (3 works) · Human rights (3 works)