Community’ at the expense of ‘kinship’ in British courts

Bibliographic Data

ID6015355
AuthorsM Demian (0000-0002-1215-0239, Australian National University, corresponding author), N Rapport (0000-0003-2803-0212), Katherine Dow (Australian National University), James F Weiner (Australian National University), James Weiner (0000-0001-5810-5807), Stephanie Riak Akuei
Year2010
Volume1
Issue2
Pages230-246
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Legal Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-9584 • E-ISSN: 1758-9576
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/jla.2010.010205
OpenAlexW191082608
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

In February 2009, a complex and difficult case was brought before the civil division of the senior Court of Appeal in London. The appellant in this case, AM v Local Authority, The Children's Guardian, B-M (Children) ([2009] EWCA Civ 205), was the father of three children who had been removed from his and his wife's household by the local authority, and placed with foster carers. The foster carers had additionally moved house several times until they were satisfied that their location was unknown to their natal family, and the children's surnames were changed. The father was denied any further contact with his children. The children's mother was at this point in prison for having set fire to the family home in 2005

Genealogy · Kinship · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law

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