Ruling on child maintenance

Title

Ruling on child maintenance

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:01:36

Description

Interview with a female speaker (poss. Judith Hart MP) about a legal case in Scotland where Sheriff Neil Gow ruled 22-year-old Christine Main should receive only one pound a week maintenance for her illegimitate child as she took no contraceptive precautions during the course of her relationship with Robert McCurdie. Male interviewer not identified. Telephone interview.

Contributors

Judith Hart?

Keywords

Legislation; Administration of justice; Scotland; Illegitimacy; Legal decisions; Trials; Child welfare; Child welfare legislation; Sheriffs; Christine Main; Robert McCurdie; Oral contraception; Neil Gow

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