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- ↑ Book reviews, Family Law, February 2010.
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- ↑ Probert, Rebecca, The Rights & Wrongs of Royal Marriage: how the law has led to heartbreak, farce and confusion, and why it must be changed, Takeaway Publishing, 2011.
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