Question: Article 3, 12 and 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child have been described as the three most important articles of the Convention. If you agree set out the Articles and describe the degree of compliance by UK law. If you do not agree say why and set out three others describing their degree of compliance with UK law.
Answer: Article 3 concerns the paramountcy of the child’s best interests and states that In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.
Although Section 1 of the Children Act 1989 sets out explicitly the best interests principle, it does so within the context of the court and even then does not extend to all decisions that are made within this forum. In adoption law, the child’s welfare is only the first consideration, in divorce the child’s welfare is not considered at all, although it is the first consideration when matters of finance and property are at issue....(short extract)
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- Subject: Law
- Course: Human Rights Law
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 72%
- Words: 768
- Date submitted: January 23, 2009
- Date written: January, 2000
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 258
