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Residence and Contact Disputes in Court Service
Volume 2

by Carol Smart, Vanessa May, Amanda Wade and Clare Furniss
University of Leeds

With Kaveri Sharma and Jason Strelitz

This is the second report from a study, contracted January 2002, which aimed to provide baseline data on contact and residence orders. Residence and Contact Disputes in Court Volume 1, released in 2003, provided feedback from the first stage of the research - a survey of 430 court cases in three different County Courts in England.

This report is based on the outcomes from the second stage of the study - qualitative in-depth interviews with 61 parents who had taken their dispute to court in one of the three areas, seeks to address questions such as:


Executive summary [PDF file 42kb]

Full report [PDF file 556kb]

Accessible version of report in four parts to download more quickly:

Full report - part 1 [PDF file 371kb]
Full report - part 2 [PDF file 461kb]
Full report - part 3 [PDF file 147kb]
Full report - part 4 [PDF file 184kb]


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