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