This case is about you and your future”
Towards Judgments for Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9194948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Stalford (0000-0002-9782-7738, Living Streets, corresponding author), Kathryn Hollingsworth (0000-0003-1659-802X, Hunter Water) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1030-1058 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7961 • E-ISSN: 1468-2230 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2230.12536 |
| OpenAlex | W3014675646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
A handful of ‘child‐friendly’ judgments have emerged in the UK in recent years, attempting to adopt a child‐centred approach to the decision‐making stage of the legal process. Most notable is Sir Peter Jackson's judgment in Re A: Letter to a Young Person which, in taking the form of a letter to the child, has been applauded as a model of how to achieve ‘child friendly justice’. This article examines how and why the form and presentation of judicial decisions is an important aspect of children's access to justice, considering not just the potential but the duty of judges to enhance children's status and capacities as legal citizens through judgment writing. We identify four potential functions of judgments written for children (communicative, developmental, instructive and legally transformative), and call for a radical reappraisal of the way in which judgments are constructed and conveyed with a view to promoting children's access to justice
Developmental psychology · Duty · Economic Justice · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics) · Process (computing) · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Legal Issues in South Africa · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |