- Author: Sam King KC and Frankie Shama
- Publisher: Law Brief Publishing
- ISBN: 9781913715182
- RRP: £79.99
This is a welcome addition to the developing literary catalogue dealing with parental alienation. It has the advantage of being modestly short—concise but appropriately so. The authors are barristers at 4 Paper Buildings and have a fine history of handling parental alienation cases. It is both a toolkit and a very good reference guide for practitioners faced with cases which have the unfortunate element of parental alienation. It is also written in a style that many clients themselves could usefully follow.
There are chapters dealing with the legal and psychiatric definition of parental alienation. A particularly good chapter considers the broad principles regarding child arrangements in Children Act 1989 proceedings generally, which includes an excellent summary of the key passages from important judgments. Chapter 3 contains an examination
