There is very little justice in the Family Courts in England & Wales. It seems
ironic that in Orwell's "1984" there was a Ministry of Truth while in today's
world we have the Royal Courts of Justice. The lawyers seek to exploit the position of
separated and divorced couples by using a system that enables them to hide behind secrecy
- ostensibly in the interests of the children. As a result, unjust decisions cannot be
brought to the attention of the media and change is deferred. An ever increasing
number of groups are forming as this situation affects more and more people, parents,
grandparents and most of all the children who are themselves suffering inevitable damage
by the wrongs inflicted on them by careless politicians, avaricious lawyers, wicked judges
and unscrupulous or stupid parents who (against the intention of the Children Act) are
wrongly granted residence. With "residence" comes enormous power - which is
perhaps inevitably abused, especially as the family courts almost never enforce their
judgements whereby they have awarded minimal contact to the non-resident parent. We think
that is not always in the child's interests. The Courts are assisted by unqualified people
working for CAFCASS, a division of DFES whose advice is sometimes good, sometimes less so.
Links
Help page
Interesting sources
The Judges' Bench Book
British &
Irish Legal Information Institute
CommunityCare site
Child Contact - family policy
briefing 3.
Family
Law Bar Association site
McMahon on Residence &
Contact
State of Childrens'
Rights 2004
Scotland
Initial Writ
Judges' remarks
CAFCASS Documents
letter
to all staff 31 Mar 2004 procedures section 7 section 25
section 31
section 39
Reporting
officer Every day
matters
CSA Advice
www.nacsa.co.uk
Durham Legal Services
Child Support Solutions.
System House 17 Pershore Rd South, Birmingham, 0845-658 8683
Domestic violence
Don't give an Undertaking,
even a voluntary one
Allegations should be heard or dismissed - Re L, V, M, H
Education
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/guidanceonthelaw/dfeepub/jun00/050600/page1.htm#par
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/guidanceonthelaw/dfeepub/jun00/050600/page2.htm
"A guide to the law for School Governors"
http://www.parentcentre.gov.uk/
To get copies of the following, email [email protected]
Help Your Children Learn - Making the most of time with your child (HYCL/4)
Help Your Children Learn - How is your child doing at school? (Ref HYCL/5)
Help Your Children Learn - Making the most of formal meetings with teachers
(Ref:HYCL/2)
Help Your Children Learn - Making the most of parents' evenings (Ref: HYCL/1)
Help Your Children Learn - Getting the most from school reports (Ref: HYCL/3)
Help Your Children Learn - A guide to supporting reading for parents of primary
school children (HYCL/7)
Help Your Children Learn - A guide to supporting reading for parents of secondary
school children (HYCL/8)
The Impact of Parental Involvement in Children's Education (Ref: LEA/0339/2003)
Involving parents, raising achievement (Ref: IPRA)
McKenzie friend
To ensure assistance of a McKenzie
friend Re O Re W-R & Re W
(McKenzie Friends) 2005 EWCA 759
McKenzie kit
Human rights
Concerning
4.23 Hill v Hester
Sealey Guidelines on contact
Shared Residence 1
Shared Residence 2
Shared Residence 3
War on secrecy in the family courts
UK Attorney-General seeks to imprison Dr Michael Pelling
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S SUMMONS
The criminal contempt summons issued by the UK
Attorney-General on 12 December 2003 is produced here A G v Pelling
KEY AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT
Following this is one
of the key affidavits in support of the summons, by one Phillip Golding in the Lord
Chancellor's Department [or "Department for Constitutional Affairs"], which
describes how Mr Golding carried out research at taxpayers' expense on the Internet to
garner evidence about publication of the journal CONTACT and about Fathers 4
Justice and other Groups and Websites supporting rights of children, fathers, and
parents. Affidavit of Phillip
Golding
Dr Pelling bites back
Pelling summons FD Appeal
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