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With the very nature and fluidity of Family Law, many attempts at definitive meanings are met with a high degree of confusion even by the most learned minds.
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With the very nature and fluidity of Family Law, many attempts at definitive meanings are met with a high degree of confusion even by the most learned minds. Parental responsibility is one such example where s.3 (1) of The Children Act 1989 provides that, "...all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has in relation to the child and his property." Indeed Ashley is one of the many who observe that this definition is far from helpful and adds that [even] "lawyers struggle to give clients a clear expression of what it actually means."1 The Law Commission did consider this issue and concluded that it was not possible to include a list of all matters concerning PR, as this would continually change.2 John Eekelaar did try to conceptualise the meaning in his article 'Parental Responsibility: state of nature or nature of the...
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