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Sat 03 Mar 2008Judges will have to make family rulings - lawyer

FAMILY LAW judges will have to rule on issues relating to the new Irish family in the absence of legislation on questions like same-sex parenting, according to a leading family lawyer.

Inge Clissman SC was speaking at a conference on children's rights and the law in Trinity College on Thursday night.