Research since 2002 has not shown that to have had a deleterious effect on the ethos of the children's hearings system.With the changes that are introduced in the new rules, more lawyers will be involved in more hearings because there will now be a small category of parents who, because they essentially lack the capacity to participate effectively in a hearing that might affect their rights under article 8 of the ECHR and might interfere with their important relationship with their child and with their child's relationship with them, will have a lawyer to represent them in order to assist...