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Notes
1. Brenda M Hoggett, (nee Hale) Mental Health (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1976).
2. Brenda M Hoggett, (nee Hale) Parents and Children (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1977).
3. Roger Smith, Children and the Courts (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1979).
4. Editorial (1978) 1 Journal of Social Welfare Law 1.
5. Peay J Decisions and Dilemmas Oxford(Hart 2003).
6. Brenda Hale,’Equality and Autonomy in Family Law’2011,33 JSWFL 3.
7. Brenda Hale’,New Familes and the Welfare of Children’(2014) 36 JSWFL 26.
8. Lady Hale,’Should Judges be Socio Legal Scholars’, Plenary Speech,Socio Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 26 March 2013, 1:www.suprememcourt.uk/docs/speech-130326.pdf.
9. See Karen Broadhurst, Tracey Budd and Teresa Williams, The Nuffield Family JusticeObservatory for England and Wales, Nuffield Foundation 2018.
10. See for example Mapping the use of social science in Australian courts: the example of family law children’s cases, Zoe Rathus, Griffith Law Review vol 25 2016, Issue 3 “ Judicial Decision Making and Outside Extra Legal Knowledge “ pages 352–382, and other papers in this special issue by Kylie Burns, Karen Schultz, Alysia Blackham.]