"This case is about you and your future": Towards Judgments for Children
"This case is about you and your future": Towards Judgments for Children
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“这个案子关乎你和你的未来”：走向对儿童的判断
DOI：
10.1111/1468-2230.12536
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2020
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Stalford H
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作者：
Stalford H
最近几年，英国出现了一些“儿童友好型”的判决，试图在法律程序的决策阶段采用以儿童为中心的方法。最值得注意的是彼得·杰克逊爵士在《给年轻人的信》一书中的判决，该书以给儿童的信的形式受到称赞，被认为是如何实现“儿童友好型司法”的典范。这篇文章探讨了司法判决的形式和呈现是儿童诉诸司法的一个重要方面的方式和原因，不仅考虑到法官通过撰写判决书提高儿童作为合法公民的地位和能力的潜力，也考虑到法官的职责。我们确定了儿童判决书的四个潜在功能(传播性、发展性、指导性和法律变革性)，并呼吁彻底重新评估判决书的构建和传达方式，以促进儿童诉诸司法。
A handful of ‘child‐friendly’ judgments have emerged in the UK in recent years, attempting to adopt a child‐centred approach to the decision‐making stage of the legal process. Most notable is Sir Peter Jackson's judgment inRe A: Letter to a Young Personwhich, in taking the form of a letter to the child, has been applauded as a model of how to achieve ‘child friendly justice’. This article examines how and why the form and presentation of judicial decisions is an important aspect of children's access to justice, considering not just the potential but thedutyof judges to enhance children's status and capacities as legal citizens through judgment writing. We identify four potential functions of judgments writtenforchildren (communicative, developmental, instructive and legally transformative), and call for a radical reappraisal of the way in which judgments are constructed and conveyed with a view to promoting children's access to justice.