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'Public International Law' offers Australian students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to international law. Covering the fundamental topics of international law - including treaties, use of force and dispute settlement - this text also discusses specialised branches such as humanitarian law, criminal law and environmental law.

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Table of Statutes -- Table of Statutory Instruments -- Table of European Legislation -- Table of Cases -- Chapter 1 Section 20 of the Children Act 1989 -- Introduction -- History of the Children Act 1989, s 20 and current pressures -- Accommodation under s 20 -- Current law in relation to s 20 -- A draft s 20 agreement -- Claims for declaration and damages -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Threshold: Children Act 1989, sections 31 and 38 -- Introduction -- Basic principles of the CA 1989, ss 31 and 38 -- Tricky issues -- Use of split hearings -- Pleading threshold: a guide -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 International public law orders -- Introduction -- Introductory procedural tips -- Care orders: jurisdiction -- Care orders: welfare -- Placement and adoption orders: jurisdiction and welfare -- Placing children abroad: adoption and special guardianship orders, BIIa, Art 56 and placements under the Hague Convention 1996 -- Relinquished babies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Children's evidence: 'achieving best evidence' and court evidence -- Introduction -- Achieving best evidence: the process -- Children giving evidence in family proceedings: guidance and tips -- Children giving evidence in family proceedings: advocacy -- Children meeting judges -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Guidelines in relation to children giving evidence in family proceedings (24 June 2011) -- Appendix 2: Guidelines for Judges Meeting Children who are subject to Family Proceedings (April 2010) -- Chapter 5 Forced marriage, honour-based violence and female genital mutilation -- Introduction -- Forced marriage -- Honour-based violence -- Female genital mutilation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Child trafficking -- Introduction -- Definition of trafficking -- Relevant statutes -- Local authority obligations to trafficked children: general.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Instruments and Legislation; 1. Context, Approach and Overview; I. Introduction; A. Starting Points; B. Research Agenda and Aims; C. Key Arguments and Next Steps; II. Law, Public Health and Participation; A. Law and Public Health: A Very Brief Overview; B. Citizen Participation; C. Taking Citizen Participation Seriously; III. Governing in Late Modernity: Theory, Concepts and Methods; A. Technologies of Governing: Risk, Freedom/Security and Governmentality; B. Regulating Risk; C. Neoliberalism.