AN experienced lawyer based in the Island has won the 2008 Jersey and Guernsey Law Review essay competition.
The competition asked Islanders to look at particular areas of Jersey Law and suggest law reform.
The top prize of £1,000 went to Barbara Corbett for her entry, ‘The Voice of the Jersey Child’.
‘The area of law I wrote about was the separate representation of children,’ said Mrs Corbett. ‘This is something which has not been very prominent in Jersey in the past, unlike England, although it has been possible for the court to order the separate representation of children in court cases involving them, since the Children (Jersey) Law 2002 came into force in 2005.
