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Not just clean-bowled
I’ll be doing a more detailed analysis of the Government’s decision, when responding to the Family Justice Review, to not adopt the recommendation to abolish Court fees for care proceedings, which went...
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Three, is not the magic number
I’ve been pondering this week about an issue that seems to come up more and more. Obviously, this whole article is prefaced by the caveat that children are better off with their birth family or family...
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Respect my prior authoriteh !
“I guess one person can make a difference… but most of the time, they probably shouldn’t” – Marge Simpson I would be very interested to know if this is a local problem, or more widespread, but...
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The Banality (and relative rarity) of evil
I suppose if you asked a member of the public whether evil was to be found in any of these groups :- politicians, estate agents, journalists, people who abuse children and lawyers; once you got past...
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what should you do if social services steal your children?
An attempt to give some practical advice I was reading this blog post at the always excellent Not So Big Society...
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Can a person choose whether to be represented by the Official Solicitor?
A consideration of the ECHR decision in R.P and Others v The United Kingdom 2012 You may remember this case from 2008 in the Court of Appeal – it was an appeal brought on behalf of a woman who had...
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Getting the best out of your solicitor
Some general advice and suggestions for making good use of a solicitor in a case involving children. For most people, the only time they see a solicitor is when they are buying a house, or when...
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Devon knows how they make it so… necessary
I was going to blog about the new High Court decision in Devon County Council v EB and Others 2013, but John Bolch of Family Lore not only beat me to it (which is usual) but he said everything that...
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“As a drunkard uses a lamppost…”
A discussion of the new CAFCASS figures on care proceedings issued by Local Authority area. Warning, contains maths, guesswork and ranting....
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“Tales of the Un-experted” (sorry)
CAFCASS have just published a study looking at experts – their use in proceedings, what type is being used, who asked for them, were they helpful?...
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Sharing information between care and criminal proceedings
There’s a CPS protocol about Disclosure of information in cases of alleged child abuse http://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/docs/third_party_protocol_2013.pdf I really do know that there’s too much...
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Divided we stand
The High Court have just reached a determination in a case involving seven children – Re S (Children : Care proceedings) 2014 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2014/2.html Part of the...
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A tale of two Telegraphs
Two recent stories in the Telegraph about Court cases. The first, here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11412971/Why-dont-the-family-courts-obey-the-law.htmlr is from a writer that you all...
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Crime and care
This was an appeal decision, which really arose from the Court in care proceedings making findings that sexual abuse allegations against a father were proven (and then making Care Orders and...
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