Child Rights
Essays on the child's position in Indian legal proceedings, and particularly on the right to be heard. Indian law fixes an age whenever it needs to bind an institution and fixes none when the question is whether to listen to a child. Custody can turn on a report the child never sees and a conversation nobody records. These essays examine what it would take for a child's participation in proceedings about her own life to be real rather than formal.
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Why a Child’s Custody Hearing Should Be on the Record
A child's custody can turn on a report she is never shown and a conversation no one records. The right to be heard is empty if being heard leaves no trace.
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Indian Law Sets No Age for Hearing a Child in Custody Cases
Indian law fixes an age whenever it needs to bind an institution. It fixes none when the question is whether to listen to the child.