Author: Nicholas Wikeley Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1847312845 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 614
Book Description
Written by one of the UK's leading scholars of welfare law, this book analyses the current child support legislation in its broader historical and social context, synthesising both doctrinal and socio-legal approaches to legal research and scholarship. The book draws on the historical and legal literature on the Poor Law and the development of both the public and private law obligation of child maintenance. Modern child support law must also be considered in the context of both social and demographic changes and in the light of popular norms about child maintenance liabilities. The main part of the book is devoted to an analysis of the modern child support scheme, and the key issues are addressed: the distinction between applications in 'private' and 'benefit' cases and the extent to which the courts retain a role in child maintenance matters; the basis for, and the justification for, the exception from the obligation for parents with care on benefit to co-operate with the Child Support Agency where they fear 'undue harm or distress'; the assessment of income for the purposes of the formula and the evidential difficulties this entails; the tension between the formula, which ignores the parent with care's income, and the demands of distributive justice; the further conflict between the formula, under which liability is capped only for the very wealthy, and the traditional approach of private law, which is premised on children being entitled to maintenance rather than a share in family wealth; the treatment of special cases under the formula by way of 'variations' (formerly 'departures'); the nature of decision-making and the scope for appeals; and the efficacy of the provisions relating to collection and enforcement. This book has been shortlisted for the 2007 SLSA Book Prize.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9780421880108 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 698
Book Description
Devoted to sentencing law, this work contains up to 40 important sentencing decisions with details of every judgment. It covers headnotes, each containing a key-word summary of the main issues and the background of the case, the judgment given and a list of cases referred to in the judgment.
Author: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited Publisher: ISBN: 9780421795709 Category : Annotations and citations (Law) Languages : en Pages : 1006
Book Description
This new edition has been updated to incorporate all the latest developments in consumer law. The authors have continued to use an innovative problem-solving approach to the subject, focusing on situations in which clients may find themselves
Author: Edward Page Publisher: Hart Publishing ISBN: 1841132071 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
Governing by Numbers is a jargon-free account of how delegated legislation - laws that do not pass through the full legislative scrutiny to which Acts of Parliament are subjected - is made. It is based on new research involving an analysis of nearly 30,000 pieces of delegated legislation; detailed investigation of 46 recent regulations based on in-depth interviews with those involved in developing, writing and scrutinising them and a major survey of nearly 400 interest groups. Delegated legislation is examined as a form of "everyday policy-making". It deals with important issues, from the level of welfare benefits to weapons exports, animal health and the prevention of air pollution, yet has been largely ignored in studies of the British political and administrative system. This book analyses the distinctive character of everyday policy making and the implications of how it works for our understanding of British democracy.
Author: Great Britain: Office of the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780117035393 Category : Social security courts Languages : en Pages : 848
Book Description
Reported decisions of the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners and of the courts on appeal from, and on reference by, the Commissioners : Vol. 21: 2004
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