Mr Stephen Gilmore
Contact details
Email: stephen.gilmore@kcl.ac.uk
Room: SW2.11
Biography
Stephen is a Senior Lecturer in Law and has worked at King’s since 2007. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East London (1995 - 2007), and a tutor in Family Law at the University of Oxford (2005 - 2007). After reading law at the University of Leicester and qualifying as a barrister, Stephen obtained an LL.M in Family Law and Family Policy from the University of East Anglia, and completed a research degree (M.St) at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is the Case Law Editor of Child and Family Law Quarterly, an Analysis Editor of the King’s Law Journal, and a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of the Centre for Family Law and Practice at LMU.
Research
Stephen has written across a range of issues in family law and child law, but with a particular interest in the law relating to parental responsibility and the resolution of parental disputes. He is currently exploring the role that social science research evidence plays in court decision making in child law cases. Stephen is currently co-authoring with Andrew Bainham the fourth edition of Children The Modern Law (Family Law).
Publications
Books
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Stephen Gilmore and Lisa Glennon, Hayes and Williams’ Family Law (3rd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2012 ) (ISBN 9780199282364).
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Jonathan Herring, Rebecca Probert and Stephen Gilmore, Great Debates in Family Law (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) (ISBN 9780230292918).
Edited books
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Stephen Gilmore, Jonathan Herring and Rebecca Probert (Eds), Landmark Cases in Family Law (Hart Publishing, July 2011) ISBN: 978-1-84946-101-6.
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R. Probert, S. Gilmore, and J. Herring (Eds) Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009) ISBN 978-1-84113-880-0.
Chapters and journal articles
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Stephen Gilmore, 'Re J (Care Proceedings: Past Possible Perpetrators in a New Family Unit) [2013] UKSC 9: Bulwarks and logic - the blood which runs through the veins of law - but how much will be spilled in future?' [2013] Child and Family Law Quarterly (forthcoming)
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Stephen Gilmore and Jonathan Herring, 'Children's Refusal of Treatment: The Debate Continues' [2012] Fam Law 973.
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Stephen Gilmore, '"Why Should They Cite Us?": Lessons from an "Uncommon" Family Lawyer's Influence on the Common Law' in R. Probert and C. Barton (Eds), Fifty Years in Family Law Essays for Stephen Cretney (Cambridge: Intersentia, 2012), 57 - 70.
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Stephen Gilmore, 'The Payne Saga: Precedent and Family Law Cases' [2011] Fam Law 970.
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Stephen Gilmore and Jonathan Herring, ‘Children’s refusal of medical treatment: could Re W be distinguished?’ [2011] Fam Law 715.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Corbett v Corbett – Once a man, always a man?’ chapter 4 in Stephen Gilmore, Jonathan Herring, and Rebecca Probert (Eds) Landmark Cases in Family Law (Hart Publishing, July 2011), 47–72.
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Stephen Gilmore, Jonathan Herring and Rebecca Probert, ‘Introduction: A Journey Through the Landmark Cases of Family Law’ in Stephen Gilmore, Jonathan Herring, and Rebecca Probert (Eds) Landmark Cases in Family Law (Hart Publishing, July 2011), 1-11.
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Stephen Gilmore and Jonathan Herring, ‘“No” is the hardest word: Consent and children’s autonomy’ (2011) 23(1) Child and Family Law Quarterly 3-25.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Shared residence: a summary of the courts’ guidance’ [2010] Fam Law 285 – 292.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘State Intervention in Family Life’ in Lesley-Anne Long, Jeremy Roche and Debbie Stringer (Eds), The Law and Social Work - Contemporary Issues for Practice (2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Shared parenting: the law and the evidence
(Part I)’ (2009) 19(4) Seen and Heard 19 – 30.
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Stephen Gilmore (with R. Probert and J. Herring), ‘A More Principled Approach to Parental Responsibility in England and Wales?’, in J. Mair and E. Orucu (Eds) Juxtaposing Legal Systems and the Principles of European Family Law on Parental Responsibilities (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2009).
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Stephen Gilmore, Review of Responsibility, Law and the Family (Ashgate, 2008), edited by Jo Bridgeman, Heather Keating and Craig Lind (2009) 21(3) Child and Family Law Quarterly 398 – 405.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘The Limits of Parental Responsibility’, in R. Probert, S. Gilmore and J. Herring (Eds), Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Hart Publishing, 2009).
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Stephen Gilmore, Jonathan Herring and Rebecca Probert, ‘Parental Responsibility – Law, Issues and Themes’, Ch 1 in R. Probert, S. Gilmore and J. Herring (Eds), Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Hart Publishing, 2009).
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘The Assumption that Contact is Beneficial: Challenging the “Secure Foundation”’ (2008) 38 Family Law 1126.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Disputing contact: challenging some assumptions’ (2008) 20(3) Child and Family Law Quarterly 285.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Re B (A Child) (Contact: Parent’s Liability to Pay Child Support) - Horses and carts: contact and child support’ (2007) 19(3) Child and Family Law Quarterly 357-373.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Court Decision-Making in Shared Residence Order Cases: A Critical Examination’ (2006) 18(4) Child and Family Law Quarterly 478 - 498.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Contact/Shared Residence and Child Well-being: Research Evidence and its Implications for Legal Decision-Making’ (2006) 20(3) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 344 – 365.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘R (On the Application of Kehoe) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2005] UKHL 48’ (2006) 28(2) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 180 - 190.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘The nature, scope, and use of the specific issue order’ (2004) 16(4) Child and Family Law Quarterly 367 - 386.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘The Gender Recognition Act 2004’ (2004) 34 Family Law 741.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Re P (a child) (financial provision) – Shoeboxes and comical shopping trips – Child support from the affluent to fabulously rich’ (2004) 16(1) Child and Family Law Quarterly 103 – 116.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Duration of Marriage and Seamless Preceding Cohabitation?’ (2004) 34 Family Law 205.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Bellinger v Bellinger – Not quite between the ears and between the legs - Transsexualism and marriage in the Lords’ (2003) 15(3) Child and Family Law Quarterly 295 – 311.
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Stephen Gilmore, ‘Parental Responsibility and the unmarried father – a new dimension to the debate’ (2003) 15(1) Child and Family Law Quarterl 21 - 39.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Family Law