On 12 May Kathleen Marshall presented a commemorative lecture in memory of Alison Newman at the BAAF Scottish Legal Group Seminar entitled, ‘Shaping the future law of the parent, child and family’. She was asked to look at the features of a Children Act which would encompass lessons from the past to enhance the future of Scottish Children. We reprint below the text of her lecture.
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UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Copies and information available from Children's Rights Development Unit, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EL, tel. 071 240 4449.
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Scottish Law Commission, ‘Report on Family Law', May 1992, HMSO.
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Scottish Office, Scottish children: proposals for child care policy and law, August 1993, HMSO.
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The Report of the Inquiry into the Removal of children from Orkney in February 1991, HMSO, 1992
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Review of Child Care Law in Scotland, HMSO, 1990
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Orkney Report (see4 above) para 15.36.
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‘Protecting children-Cleveland to Orkney: more lessons to learn’ (conference report) ed. Prof. Stewart Asquith, HMSO p. 47.
