Adrienne Barnett- PhD
- Reader at Brunel University London
Adrienne Barnett
- PhD
- Reader at Brunel University London
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Introduction
Adrienne Barnett was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1981 and practised at the independent Bar London for over 30 years, specialising in Family Law. She has taught law at Brunel University since January 2014. Her specialist area of research is domestic abuse in family law cases and she has published widely and been active in policy change in this area. She draws on feminist poststructuralist themes in her research and also has an interest in autopoetic systems theory. She is currently a member of the Advisory Group of Rights of Women and of Women's Aid's Expert Advisory Group to the Child First campaign. Her latest publication is Barnett, A. (2017) ''Greater than the mere sum of its partscoercive control and the question of proof'. Child and Family Law Quarterly. ISSN: 1358-8184
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This article discusses the recent Forum on Domestic Violence and the Operation of Article 13(1)(b) of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction sponsored by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The article describes the reason for the Forum and highlights some of the important content that emerged at t...
On the 4th of June 2024, 13 Swedish academics (including the lead author, who is based at UCL in London, UK) and psychologists raised caution related to the use of the so-called ‘parental alienation' belief system in Swedish Family Courts through the article ‘Parental Alienation is Pseudoscience’ published in the Swedish magazine directed at psycho...
Gender-based violence (GBV) and Domestic Violence (DV) are prevalent in Brazil. There are growing concerns globally regarding the weaponisation of the pseudo-concept ‘Parental Alienation’ (PA) in the family courts against women. Additionally, a lack of understanding of mothers’ family court and health-related experiences indicated a need to explore...
Gender-based violence (GBV) and Domestic Violence (DV) are prevalent in Brazil. There are growing concerns globally regarding the weaponisation of the pseudo-concept ‘Parental Alienation’ (PA) in the family courts against women. Additionally, a lack of understanding of mothers’ family court and health-related experiences indicated a need to explore...
This article explores the emergence and development of parental alienation (PA) in England and Wales. It considers the background into which PA first appeared in private law proceedings concerning children in England and Wales, and examines how it progressed in the case law through the changing political and discursive context of private family law...
This 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 Contact Disputes and Allegations of Domestic Violence – Identifying Best Practices at which the papers in the special issue were o...
Prior to the loss of legal aid for many litigants in private law Children Act proceedings occasioned by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, family lawyers were observed to pressurise victims of domestic violence to agree to unsafe contact orders. Drawing on Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic social systems, this article sug...
Fact-finding hearings may be held to determine disputed allegations of domestic violence in child contact cases in England and Wales, and can play a vital role for mothers seeking protection and autonomy from violent fathers. Drawing on the author’s empirical study, this article examines the implications for the holding of fact-finding hearings of...
This paper considers the implications of the theories of Niklas Luhmann for attempts at achieving social change through law. According to Luhmann, modern society consists of all that can be communicated and understood as having meaning. Such communications are structured according to functionally differentiated subsystems such as law, politics, sci...
This note examines the decision of the Family Division of the High Court in N. v. N. (Jurisdiction: Pre-Nuptial Agreement) in which, in the context of Jewish divorce proceedings, the Court found that it had no jurisdiction to order a husband, by
specific performance of a marriage agreement, to go through the procedure to obtain a ‘get’ (a hand-writ...
