A BRIGHTLY COLOURED PHOENIX

Welstead and Edwards Family Law: Core Text ISBN 0 199 28235 8 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) pp 372, price £18.95Considering the pace and volume of legislation and cultural change in Family law over the past 10 years, lecturers everywhere must finally have begun to despair of ever containing family law within a manageable syllabus before this neat compendium of essential principles and supporting authority was published by Oxford University Press in their Core Text Series, at the same time that the long awaited English spring did not arrive to cheer us after the prolonged winter