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Speech by Sir James Munby: Changing families - family law yesterday, today and tomorrow - a view from south of the Border



In the year when we are commemorating the centenary of the extension of the franchise to women - though only to some women - it is perhaps useful to start what I have to say by looking at the state of English family law a 100 years ago. It was, in truth, scarcely changed from the legacy bequeathed by the Victorians to the Edwardians.

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