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from Part II - Even Lawyers Were Children Once
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
Rights are valuable commodities but without remedies they have only expressive value. The CRC paid little attention to this rather obvious point, and, as a result, barely addressed the question of how children were supposed to enforce the rights in the Convention. This should not surprise us. Were we really taking Article 12 seriously (Daly, 2018: 43)? How many of the leading cases on children’s rights were brought by children? Most, I suspect, were initiated by those wishing to gainsay children’s rights! Mrs Gillick? Nothing could have been further from her mind. Williamson? Fortunately, Baroness Hale was on hand to speak for the children.
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