Preface
Introduction: Paradoxes of Children’s Rights
Nicholas Bala
Part One
1 The Children’s Trilogy: The Best Interests of the Child Principle and the Principles of Fundamental Justice
Mark Carter
2 Children’s Rights and Health Law: The “Mature Minor” Rule Revisited
Gerald B. Robertson, QC
3 Nowhere to Stand: Correction by Force in the Supreme Court of Canada
Anne McGillivray
4 The Child Witness Project: Examining the Assessment of the Competence of Child Witnesses
Victoria Talwar, Rod Lindsay, and Kang Lee
5 Factors Influencing the Eyewitness Identification Accuracy of Child Witnesses
Natalie Kalmet, Rod Lindsay, Michelle I. Bertrand, and Jamal K. Mansour
Part Two
6 The Changing Face of Youth Corrections
Carla Cesaroni
7 The Last Chance Sanction in Youth Court: The Deferred Custody and Supervision Order
Peter J. Carrington and Julian V. Roberts
8 The Youth Criminal Defence Office: A Model Approach to the Right to Counsel
Cathy Lane Goodfellow, QC
9 Understanding the Principled Arguments for Criminalizing Misbehaviour by Youths under Twelve
Anthony N. Doob and Jane B. Sprott
Part Three
10 Judicial Interviews of Children in Custody and Access Cases
Dan L. Goldberg
11 Speaking for Themselves: A Pilot Program Balancing Children’s Rights and Best Interests in High-Conflict Families
Dale Hensley, QC and Jean Dunbar
12 An Evaluation of Alberta’s Family Law Act
Leslie D. MacRae, Shane D. Simpson, Joanne J. Paetsch, Lorne D. Bertrand, Sheryl Pearson, and Joseph P. Hornick
13 No Presumptions: Joint Custody in the British Columbia Court of Appeal
Susan B. Boyd