Browsing by Author "HUNTER, RC"
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Children's Voices: Centre-Stage or Sidelined in Out-of-Court Dispute Resolution in England and Wales?
HUNTER, RC; Ewing, J; Barlow, AE; Smithson, J (Jordan Publishing, 2015-04-01)The UK Government recently announced that children aged 10 and over should have the opportunity to be consulted on their views in both family court proceedings and family mediation. Drawing on data from the ESRC-funded ... -
Feminist Judging in the 'Real World'
HUNTER, RCThe various feminist judgment projects (FJPs) have explored through the imagined rewriting of judgments a range of ways in which a feminist perspective may be applied to the practice of judging. But how do these imagined ... -
The Feminist Judgments Project: Legal Fiction as Critique and Praxis
HUNTER, RC (2015-12-01)This note introduces the United Kingdom's Feminist Judgments Project and explains its method of (re)writing imagined legal judgments from a feminist perspective. It identifies the ways in which project participants put ... -
Inducing demand for family mediation - before and after LASPO
HUNTER, RCThis article discusses the ‘unintended’, but by no means unpredicted, consequences of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) in terms of the drop in family mediation, the various efforts ... -
Introduction: Contact and Domestic Abuse
HUNTER, RC; Barnett, A; Kaganas, FThis article introduces the special issue of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law on Contact Disputes and Allegations of Domestic Abuse. It first describes the aims and findings of the International Symposium on ... -
Judging in lower courts: Conventional, procedural, therapeutic and feminist approaches
HUNTER, RC; Roach Anleu, S; Mack, KRecent theorising about feminist judging has concentrated on appellate courts and their judgments. This article develops a conceptualisation of feminist judging in lower, first instance courts, which are dominated by high ... -
Judicial Diversity and the 'New' Judge
HUNTER, RC (Hart Publishing, 2015-02-01) -
Judicial Leadership on the UK Supreme Court
HUNTER, RC; Rackley, E (Wiley, 2018-06-01)This article examines judicial leadership on the UK Supreme Court. It does not confine itself to the formal roles of the President and Deputy President. Rather building on existing categories of judicial leadership, including ... -
Justice Betty King: A Study of Feminist Judging in Action
HUNTER, RC; Tyson, D (University of New South Wales, 2017-05-29) -
Law, Discretion, Gender and Justice in Out-of-Court Financial Settlements
HUNTER, RC; Barlow, A; Smithson, J; Ewing, J (LexisNexis Australia, 2018-09-01)This paper presents some of the findings of our Mapping Paths to Family Justice research with regard to out-of-court settlements in financial cases, considering what parties and practitioners respectively bring to the ... -
The moral order in family mediation: Negotiating competing values
HUNTER, RC; Smithson, J; Barlow, A; Ewing, J (Wiley, 2017-04-27)We used Discourse Analysis to study how mediators and parties negotiate competing priorities and values during the family mediation process. We drew on understandings of practical morality, and specifically the concept of ... -
More than Just a Different Face? Judicial Diversity and Decision-making
HUNTER, RC (Oxford University Press, 2015-04-27)This article addresses a key question in debates around judicial diversity: what evidence is there that a more diverse judiciary will make a difference to substantive decision-making? The article begins by outlining the ... -
Three Landmark Feminist Legal Texts: Personal and Political
HUNTER, RC (Taylor & Francis, 2015-06-01)