Posted in care, children, courts, family on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
ITs been reported this week that the number of care proceedings issued in the London area is down by 30% since the Public Law Outline Pilot began, the Government in press releases and the FLBA in its recent members email both speculate that this may be down to an increase in placements with extended family. [...]
Posted in barrister, blogging, children, family, stuff on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s hard to reach this keyboard with the babber in a sling on my chest…but darn it that’s not the toughest thing I’ve done in the last 3 weeks…Quick - while he’s sleeping - BLOG a BLOG…
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Sigh…It’s hard to keep track of events in the legal world when I am (quite literally) drowning in pooey [...]
Posted in children, family, feminism on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yuk yuk yuk. What an obnoxious woman! I had the misfortune last night of watching ‘Mums who leave their kids’ last night on telly, a ‘documentary’ by Jane Moore a writer for the Sun. I say documentary, but in fact this was really just an opportunity for Jane Moore to pour forth a whole load [...]
Posted in care, children, courts, family, financial on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The NSPCC and the Law Society have recently aired their concerns by press release about the detrimental side-effects that the enormous hike in court fees for the issue of care proceedings is likely to have on child welfare. NSPCC director and chief executive, Dame Mary Marsh, says quite rightly:
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‘It is a matter of public interest [...]
Posted in barrister, children, courts, family, professional conduct, stuff on January 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is a really interesting article in the December issue of Family Law (Fam Law [2007] 1107) entitled ‘Attachment Problems Among Lawyers’. In it Dr George Hibbert, a consultant Psychiatrist, writes about the issue of attachment in the family courts.
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Ordinarily family lawyers come across attachment theory in expert court reports, particularly in care proceedings, where [...]
Posted in adoption, children, courts, family, fathers on November 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
John at Family Lore has beaten me to it on this story about the Court of Appeal decision that a father should not be told about his 4 month old baby prior to adoption. I agree with what John says about the Mother having the ultimate veto over the father knowing - this goes against [...]
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