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Serving Best Interests in ‘Known Biological Father Disputes’ in the United Kingdom (2016)
Book Chapter
Macfarlane, L. (2016). Serving Best Interests in ‘Known Biological Father Disputes’ in the United Kingdom. In E. E. Sutherland, & L. A. B. MacFarlane (Eds.), Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child : best in

Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child provides that in ‘all actions concerning children’ the ‘best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration’. However, the paradigms of family life, and child-rearing, are constantly... Read More about Serving Best Interests in ‘Known Biological Father Disputes’ in the United Kingdom.

Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: best interests, welfare and well-being (2016)
Book
Sutherland, E. E., & MacFarlane, L. B. (Eds.). (2016). Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: best interests, welfare and well-being. Cambridge University Press

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is acknowledged as a landmark in the development of children's rights. Article 3 makes the child's best interests a primary consideration in all actions concerning children, and requires States Parties to... Read More about Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: best interests, welfare and well-being.

Issues of Rights and Capacity: child and adolescent medical decisions (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2015, November). Issues of Rights and Capacity: child and adolescent medical decisions. Paper presented at Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, Child and Adolescent Faculty Conference

No abstract available.

Serving best interests in Known Biological Father disputes (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2015, July). Serving best interests in Known Biological Father disputes. Paper presented at Convention on the Rights of the Child Implementation Project Colloquium

Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child provides that in ‘all actions concerning children’ the ‘best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration’. Increasing diversity in family life raises increasingly diverse issues in... Read More about Serving best interests in Known Biological Father disputes.

‘Taking care of the small: Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and childhood accidental injury claims in Scotland’ (2015)
Journal Article
Macfarlane, L. (2015). ‘Taking care of the small: Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and childhood accidental injury claims in Scotland’. Stellenbosch Law Review, 26(2), 424-442

This article addresses the right to life, survival and development, guaranteed to every child by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 6, within the context of childhood accidental injury in Scotland. It is argued that Sc... Read More about ‘Taking care of the small: Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and childhood accidental injury claims in Scotland’.

Children and their capacity in Scots Law: medical decision-making (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2015, March). Children and their capacity in Scots Law: medical decision-making. Paper presented at Centre for Mental Health and Incapacity Law, Rights and Policy Conference

No abstract available.

A critical evaluation of the rights, status and capacity of distinct categories of Individuals in underdeveloped and emerging areas of law (2014)
Thesis
Macfarlane, L. B. (2014). A critical evaluation of the rights, status and capacity of distinct categories of Individuals in underdeveloped and emerging areas of law. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7

The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate how my research promotes knowledge exchange about my overarching research theme: the rights, status and capacity of distinct categories of individuals in underdeveloped and emerging areas of law. These catego... Read More about A critical evaluation of the rights, status and capacity of distinct categories of Individuals in underdeveloped and emerging areas of law.

F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm? (2014)
Journal Article
Macfarlane, L. B. (2014). F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm?. Edinburgh Law Review, 18(2), 284-289. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2014.0214

Notwithstanding extensive media coverage and commentary, the recent judgment of the High Court Family Division in F v F1 is not one that tells us very much about children’s rights or, indeed, their welfare. Instead, the case reveals the complexitie... Read More about F v F: MMR vaccine - welfare need or welfare norm?.

Douglas v Duke of Hamilton. (2013)
Book Chapter
Macfarlane, L. B. (2012). Douglas v Duke of Hamilton. In J. P. Grant, & E. E. Sutherland (Eds.), Pronounced for doom: Scots Law Tales IIAvizandrum

Family law. (2012)
Book Chapter
Macfarlane, L. B. (2011). Family law. In M. A. Mulhern (Ed.), The LawJohn Donald

Education Law. (2009)
Book Chapter
Macfarlane, L. B. (2008). Education Law. In A. Cleland, & E. E. Sutherland (Eds.), Children's Rights in ScotlandW Green

Parents' and Pupils' Rights (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2009, September). Parents' and Pupils' Rights. Paper presented at Education Law for Teachers: CLT conference

No abstract available.