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“Wilful Neglect” in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933

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  3. [1980] 3 All E.R. 899, 901,per Lord Edmund-Davies.

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    Chris Gane LL.B. (Edinburgh) (Lecturer in Law)

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Gane, C. “Wilful Neglect” in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. Liverpool Law Rev 3, 79–84 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03185299

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