Legal representation of children

Title: Legal representation of children
Creator: Ross, Nicola M.
Relation: Children and the Law in Australia p. 544-573
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Publisher: LexisNexis
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: Legal representation is fundamentally, important to children and young people: it has the potential to support their, participation in decision making that affects their lives and it has the potential to support their legal rights. Legal representation of children also performs an important function for courts. Lawyers may be appointed by the court to represent a child's best interests thereby assisting the court to make decisions that support a child's welfare. As the law has only relatively recently recognised children as individuals with rights, it comes as no surprise that legal representation for this group has lagged behind that offered to adults. It has also taken different forms. While legal representation has the potential to allow children and young people to be heard and to enforce their legal rights, research indicates that it does not always achieve this aim.
Subject: legal representation; children; lawyers; legal rights; common law
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804510
Identifier: uon:6640
Identifier: ISBN:9780409323900
Language: eng

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