Taking the Rights of Parents and Children Seriously: Confronting the Welfare Principle under the Human Rights Act |
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Authors: | Choudhry Shazia; Fenwick Helen |
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Institution: | * Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and Professor of Law, University of Durham respectively. |
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Abstract: | This article argues that resistance to the Human Rights Acthas built up in the context of disputes relating to childrenand that such resistance is founded in the attachment of thecourts to the welfare or paramountcy principle as currentlyconceivedthe principle that the childs welfareautomatically prevails over the rights of other family members.It argues that the failure to take account of Convention argumentscould only be a legitimate stance if there was no conflict betweenthe demands of the welfare principle and those of the Conventionguarantees, but that in fact the approach of the European Courtof Human Rights differs considerably from that of the UK courtssince it seeks to balance the rights of different family members.The article goes on to argue that, taking account of the Strasbourgstance and of the already established domestic recognition ofthe presumptive equality of competing qualified Convention rights,it is time to accept the adoption of a new model of judicialreasoning in the context of disputes over childrentheparallel analysis or ultimate balancingact. |
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