Part 2 of Celestine Greenwood’s 16 Days series: the CEDAW Committee’s jurisprudence on violence against women — and why it has practical relevance for family and human rights practitioners in England and Wales.
Part 1 of Celestine Greenwood’s 16 Days series: a guide to the international legal framework for addressing violence against women and girls, from CEDAW to the Istanbul Convention, and its application in English law.
To mark the launch of the UN 16 Days Campaign, Celestine Greenwood writes in Counsel Magazine: what can individual barristers and chambers actually do to prevent, protect against, and prosecute gender-based violence?
Writing in Counsel Magazine, Celestine Greenwood — an exhausted family practitioner — argues that the family law system is in crisis, and that failing to recognise this demeans the extraordinary efforts of all who work within it.
Drawing on 20 years at the family Bar and her LLM research in international human rights, Celestine Greenwood asks whether the public law family justice system is genuinely serving the children and families it exists to protect — and argues for a fundamental rethink.
Following Re H-N and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, Celestine Greenwood examines the discordant ways in which the criminal, private law children, and public law children systems treat domestic abuse — and calls for a fundamental rethink.
Writing in Today’s Family Lawyer, Celestine Greenwood examines whether the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 — the first statute to define domestic abuse in English law — is truly the transformational legislation its supporters hoped for.
On International Women’s Day 2021, Celestine Greenwood accepts the invitation to #ChooseToChallenge — reflecting on women’s representation at the Bar, the persistence of domestic abuse, and the intersectional nature of gender inequality.
Celestine Greenwood’s contribution to the Feminist International Judgments Project: a feminist rewriting of the ICTY judgment in Prosecutor v Radovan Karadžić, published in Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hart Publishing, 2019).
Today is the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela, one of the most exceptional and transformational political leaders of all times. This important day of remembrance comes at a moment that is particularly troubling from a human rights perspective: racism is rampant; children’ s most basic rights are violated on account of their nationality and migrant status of their parents; multilateralism appears to be on the retreat; every day there are migrants, including migrant children, that drown in the Mediterranean Sea;…