On this day 16 November 1989 – The Children Act

The Children Act received Royal Assent on 16 November 1989 At the time of its enactment, the Children Act was designed to be a dramatic departure in relation to the previous legislation as it centred around the fact that children are best cared for within their own...

Is judicial biography scholarly enough for a PhD?

By Kate Faulkner PhD student at IALS and Legal Research Librarian at the Squire Law Library, University of Cambridge Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash In the Preface to Hobsbawm’s autobiography where he apologises (as so many biographers do) for writing a biography,...