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Incorporating children's rights: the divergence in law and policy

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Legal Studies, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 261 - 287

Swansea University Author: Jane Williams Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2007.00049.x

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The paper examines conceptual barriers to incorporation of chidlren's rights - understood in the context of the ECHR, the Human Rights Act 1998 and the UNCRC - in the law of England and Wales. It identifies traditions in law and policy and competing political imperatives that pull against effec...

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Published in: Legal Studies
Published: Oxford Blackwell 2007
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