the tap: What's This Vicky Haigh Thing All About? State Ch...

the tap: What's This Vicky Haigh Thing All About? State Ch...: As for the allegations implying a mother can teach a daughter to call a father a paedophile, how would a girl of 5/6/7 even know what it wa...

Legally Kidnapped: New law targets false reporting of child welfare w...

Legally Kidnapped: New law targets false reporting of child welfare w...: New law targets false reporting of child welfare workers Those are two of several cases in recent years where state officials found child ...

Legally Kidnapped: DHS worker faked report to cover up botched invest...

Legally Kidnapped: DHS worker faked report to cover up botched invest...: DHS worker faked report to cover up botched investigation A worker for the state Department of Human Services faked reports to cover up hi...

Family Lore: News Update: 8th of October 2013

Family Lore: News Update: 8th of October 2013: WELCOME to this week's Family Lore News Update. NEWS Domestic abuse victims should have right to keep address secret, say campaig...

Family Lore: Family Lore Clinic: Can you appeal against a share...

Family Lore: Family Lore Clinic: Can you appeal against a share...: A shared residence order is an order stating that a child shall live part of the time with one parent and the rest of the time with the ...

Family Lore: Book Review: The Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus

Family Lore: Book Review: The Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus: The Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus 20 Years of Cartoons from the Times 1993-2013 Alex Steuart Williams £9.99 (pape...

Family Lore: News Update: 22nd of October 2013

Family Lore: News Update: 22nd of October 2013: WELCOME to this week's Family Lore News Update. NEWS Children’s Services Directors respond to Ofsted’s criticisms of children’s s...

Family Lore: Your family and Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA): a...

Family Lore: Your family and Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA): a...: Dealing with the death or ill health of a family member is never easy, but unfortunately it does happen. As we age, our bodies and minds can...

Family Lore: What I've been writing about this week on the Mari...

Family Lore: What I've been writing about this week on the Mari...: My posts on the Marilyn Stowe Blog from the last seven days: What are family lawyers talking about this week? - a review of last week...

Family Lore: A v D: Traversing the threshold to terminate paren...

Family Lore: A v D: Traversing the threshold to terminate paren...: Mr Justice Roderic Wood A brief summary of A v D (Parental Responsibility) [2013] EWHC 2963 (Fam) . It is not often that a father&#39...

Family Lore: News Update: 29th of October 2013

Family Lore: News Update: 29th of October 2013: WELCOME to this week's Family Lore News Update. NEWS 'Disastrous' drop in out-of-court mediation for divorcing couples T...

Family Lore: Re Davies: Family found in contempt for failure to...

Family Lore: Re Davies: Family found in contempt for failure to...: Only yesterday I wrote a post on the Marilyn Stowe Blog about the ECHR case Pakhomova v Russia , which involved a father taking the chi...

Legally Kidnapped: Poems to Remember Missing Children

Legally Kidnapped: Poems to Remember Missing Children: By Vivian Gilbert Zabel Gone Little children play in the street, Laughing as they hide and seek, But none of them are you. With sparkling ...

Anti Juvenile Justice Agency: UK: Children that have died from Social Services t...

Anti Juvenile Justice Agency: UK: Children that have died from Social Services t...: John Brookes Social services failures are so regular it is a daily occurrence and children do die and they will continue d...

Anti Juvenile Justice Agency: Italian Mother: Statement by John Hemming

Anti Juvenile Justice Agency: Italian Mother: Statement by John Hemming: Unsurprisingly there is a lot of media interest in this case.  We do, however, need to remember that at the centre of this case is a mothe...

Anti Juvenile Justice Agency: Explain why you snatched baby girl at birth: Judge...

Anti Juvenile Justice Agency: Explain why you snatched baby girl at birth: Judge...: Sir James Munby has demanded answers in extraordinary case The child was taken from the 35-year-old Italian in forced caesarean The case ...

my film journal: From Up On Poppy Hill

my film journal: From Up On Poppy Hill

Family Lore: Why did Vicky Haigh not appeal?

Family Lore: Why did Vicky Haigh not appeal?: Further to this post , the UK Human Rights Blog this morning published what they call a 'press release' from Sir Nicholas Wall on ...

Family Lore: Two Haigh judgments published: "Be you never so gr...

Family Lore: Two Haigh judgments published: "Be you never so gr...: The two judgments in the Victoria Haigh case have now been published on Bailii. They are: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council v Watson ...

Family Lore: Government's response to the Report of the Justice...

Family Lore: Government's response to the Report of the Justice...: The Government's response to the Report of the Justice Select Committee on the Operation of the Family Courts has been published today ...

Family Lore: A few more thoughts on litigants in person

Family Lore: A few more thoughts on litigants in person: As litigants in person seems to be the subject of the moment, I thought I would return briefly to S v AG , the case I reported yesterday , t...

Family Lore: Best excuse for missing court

Family Lore: Best excuse for missing court: Over the years I've heard many different excuses for failing to attend a court hearing, but this one is in a different league to &quo...

Family Lore: Review of the Year, Part 2

Family Lore: Review of the Year, Part 2: Continuing this exciting trip down (short-term) memory lane: April After the compulsory initial silliness , April heralded the biggest c...

Family Lore: Blood on the carpet

Family Lore: Blood on the carpet: Just  a quick heads-up for an article in the Gazette today regarding the increase in litigants in person. In it, District Judge Nick Cri...

Family Lore: W-B (A Child): The complexities of jurisdiction

Family Lore: W-B (A Child): The complexities of jurisdiction: The recent case of W-B (A Child) [2012] EWCA Civ 592 demonstrates some of the complexities of resolving jurisdictional issues within the...

Family Lore: Establishment of a Family Court

Family Lore: Establishment of a Family Court: The Family Justice Review of course recommended the establishment of a single family court, with a single point of entry. That recommendati...

Family Lore: B v B: Another warning on bundles

Family Lore: B v B: Another warning on bundles: The case of B v B [2012] EWHC 1924 (Fam) , decided today, contains another judicial warning upon the preparation of court bundles. The ca...

Family Lore: Privacy and Publicity in Family Law: Their Eternal...

Family Lore: Privacy and Publicity in Family Law: Their Eternal...: I have just come across this (thanks, Current Awareness !). It is the 2012 Gray's Inn Reading lecture, given by Sir Nicholas Wall on the...

Family Lore: Fun times ahead at the PRFD?

Family Lore: Fun times ahead at the PRFD?: I have received information regarding the future of the Principal Registry, and it makes grim reading. The facts, as given to a meeting ...

Family Lore: Guide for Litigants in Person

Family Lore: Guide for Litigants in Person: To coincide with the wholesale abolition of legal aid on the 1st of April, the Bar Council has published what looks like a useful guide ...

Family Lore: Top Ten Cases of 2008

Family Lore: Top Ten Cases of 2008: Family Law Newswatch has selected its ' Top ten family law cases of 2008 ', comprising what it considers to be the " ten most ...

Family Lore: A v East Sussex County Council & Ors: The cost of ...

Family Lore: A v East Sussex County Council & Ors: The cost of ...: The case A v East Sussex County Council & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 743 caused some headlines yesterday, for example in The Independent , an...

Family Lore: Is 'Human Rights' overrated?

Family Lore: Is 'Human Rights' overrated?: Everywhere you go these days you read and hear about 'Human Rights'. Try as you might, you can't avoid it, whether it be politic...

Family Lore: RCW v A Local Authority: An unusual and troubling ...

Family Lore: RCW v A Local Authority: An unusual and troubling ...: Mr Justice Cobb A summary of RCW v A Local Authority [2013] EWHC 235 (Fam) (12 February 2013). Mr Justice Cobb, giving what must be...

Family Lore: Supreme Court judgment in In the matter of KL (A C...

Family Lore: Supreme Court judgment in In the matter of KL (A C...

bang up all social workers : EUROPEAN COURTS: This week in Strasbourg - A round...

bang up all social workers : EUROPEAN COURTS: This week in Strasbourg - A round...: EUROPEAN COURTS: This week in Strasbourg - A roundup of the Europea... :   ACCESS TO INFORMATION FOR EMPLOYEES - In the case of Vilnes a...

EUROPEAN COURTS: This week in Strasbourg - A roundup of the Europea...

EUROPEAN COURTS: This week in Strasbourg - A roundup of the Europea...:   ACCESS TO INFORMATION FOR EMPLOYEES - In the case of Vilnes and Others v. Norway the European Court of Human Rights held that Nor...

we all need to get social workers banged up for there corruption/lies/deaths/adopting children behing parents backs/back handers//this needs to start if crimminals get banged up why not social workers they are doing crimminal things so whats the difference