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This title was first published in 2001. Making decisions about the care and protection of children who appear before the courts is complex. Magistrates have a unique authority to make, or reject child protection orders - yet the criteria they use to decide a protection order, how they understand the information presented to them in court and the factors that influence their discretion and decision-making have, until now, been little known.
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