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A. Section Profile

The Family Law Section of the SLS exists to provide a forum for those interested in family, child and related law to meet, discuss, exchange ideas and arrange meetings, possible conference(s), possible themes for the annual conference and to share scholarly activity in the broad area of Family Law. There are section meetings with papers presented at the annual conference of SLS. The Family Law Seminar held at Staffordshire University Law School each year (normally the first Saturday in February) is an opportunity to meet together with other section members from SLS and with other family lawyers from a variety of institutions and organisations where there is an interest in Family Law.

The Section Convenors will be pleased to help with any queries.

B. Section Convenor

Rebecca Probert

Warwick University

Law School

Rebecca.probert@warwick.ac.uk

Email: Rebecca.probert@warwick.ac.uk

Deputy Convenor

Shazia Choudry (Queen Mary)

C. Section News

- Call for Papers on Family Law for the 2010 SLS Conference at Southampton - Published Sunday January 31 2010.
- RESEARCH PROJECT ON MARITAL AGREEMENTS - Published Saturday January 03 2009.

D. Provisional Conference Programme

2010 Conference at Southampton

Session 1: September 13th 14.00 - 15.30 Room Law 4005

The impact of the HRA

1A. Jane Fortin ( Sussex)

'The HRA's impact on children's rights'

1B. Ruth Lamont ( Liverpool)

'Human Rights in the Context of International Child Abduction within the EU' WITHDRAWN 4 aug

IC. Laura Byrne (Trinity College Dublin)

'McD v L: The Invisible Presence of the European Convention in Irish Family Law'

Session 2: September 13th 16.00 - 17.30 Room Law 4005

Different perspectives

2A. John Caldwell ( Canterbury, New Zealand)

'An inquiry into inquisitorial processes for cases concerning children, and the judicial interviewing of children'

2B. Sue Farran ( Dundee)

'Bringing the UNCRC home: post-colonial postcards from abroad'

2C. Annika Newnham ( Portsmouth)

'Shared residence and autopoetic theory'

Session 3 September 14th 09.30 - 11.00 Room Law 4005

Parenting

3A Caroline Jones ( Southampton)

'Tracing connections: the impossible parents in law'

3B David Gurnham and Jose Miola ( Manchester and Leicester respectively)

'It's a wise man that knows his father: what role for the father in an age of "supportive parenting"?'

3C Debra Wilson ( Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

'The legal implications of surrogacy tourism'

Session 4 September 14th 14.00 - 15.30 Room Law 4005

Marriage and cohabitation

4A. Jo Miles ( Cambridge), Fran Wasoff and Enid Mordaunt ( Edinburgh)

'Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006: practitioners' experience of three years with a cohabitation law'

4B. Marie Parker ( Bangor) 'Marital Property Agreements - A Human Rights Issue?'

4C. Andrew Gilbert (Anglia Ruskin )

'The three-stranded cord: The Conservative Party's relationship with marriage and divorce'

4C Rebecca Probert (Warwick)

'The evolution of the common law marriage myth'.

Previous Conferences

- Oxford 2003.
- Sheffield 2004.
- Strathclyde 2005.
- Keele 2006.
- Durham 2007.
- London 2008.