This collection of short articles, aimed at practitioners and family law students, charts the development of family law from the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Scotland Act 1999 to the present day. It pays particular attention to the children's hearing system, the Hague Child Abduction Convention, same-sex relationships and cohabitiation.

Kenneth Norrie is Professor of Law at Strathclyde Law School. He has taught Family Law for over 20 years, both in Scotland and abroad and has written many of the major textbooks on the subject, as well as numerous articles on child protection and same-sex families. He has advised the Scottish Parliament on most of its recent family law legislation and was a member of the children's panel for ten years.