Charlotte is a DPhil student at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, having recently submitted her MSt in the department. Her MSt explored how legal discourse in Singapore from mid 1980s to the present day has shaped and constructed the ‘image’ of the child. She is interested more broadly in how discourse constructs identity categories, including disability, and serves as Disabilities Equalities Officer for Balliol MCR.
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Balancing Rights: The Future of Remote Courts in Public Family Law
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At the start of 2022, as we approach nearly two years of family courts operating under the twin pressures of decades of under-funding and the impact of Covid-19, there is a ...
A Human Right to Divorce?
The case of Owens v Owens rocked the legal world in late July, when the Supreme Court decided that Tini Owens could not divorce her husband, despite the court recognising that this could leave her “trapped in an unhappy marriage.” Her ...
Discriminatory changes to UK disability benefits: some hope from judicial intervention?
Welfare benefit law and policy has seen considerable controversy over the last few years, as existing benefits are changed and reduced. This April saw the annual changes to benefit levels and eligibility. Yet one case in December last ...
Falling into gaps and getting stuck in traps: Post-18 transition for young people with learning difficulties
Connor Sparrowhawk, a young man of 18 with autism and epilepsy, was admitted to Slade House after he became increasingly agitated by changes as he prepared to leave school and transition into receiving adult social care services. ...
The strange case of Amos Yee: whither free speech and children’s rights in Singapore?
On 27th March 2015 as Singaporeans mourned the death, four days earlier, of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (often known as LKY), a 16-year-old Singaporean named Amos Yee uploaded a video to YouTube entitled “Lee Kuan Yew is ...
