Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-gr6zb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-22T07:39:26.062Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

“NAME THIS CHILD”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2001

JONATHAN HERRING
Get access

Abstract

Names are used to identify and categorise, and hence the power to name is significant. In three recent cases the courts have been faced with disputes over the naming of children (two in the Court of Appeal: Dawson v. Wearmouth [1997] 2 F.L.R. 629; Re P (Parental Responsibility) [1997] 2 F.L.R. 722 and one in the Family Division: Re PC (Change of Surname) [1997] 2 F.L.R. 730). The law following these decisions seems, in outline, to be as follows.

Type
Case and Comment
Information
The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , July 1998 , pp. 235 - 273
Copyright
© Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)