Panorama

On Monday Panorama showed a report on the journey through the family courts of a family accused of causing serious non-accidental injuries to their baby son: ‘Parents’ Child Abuse Nightmare’. After lengthy police investigation and care proceedings no prosecution was pursued and a finding of fact hearing exonerated the parents, the Judge holding that there [...]

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Parental Alienation – a sad story

I don’t have time today to analyse this case in a full blog post but I did want to post a link to it. John Bolch at Family Lore has been able to provide a very helpful summary of it and links to the judgment.

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Hitler Youth

Surreal: Mr Hitler’s children removed by New Jersey Family Court. Thanks Popehat.

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Judge Dread – The Future

The Family Justice Review is calling for written evidence by the end of September (see here). Anyone who is considering submitting a response should consider this: at the recent oral evidence session I attended with other lawyers, the panel were asking serious and reaching questions about the extent to which the courts needed to be [...]

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Blogger’s Libel Judgment

Essential reading for bloggers: Kaschke v Gray & Hilton [2010] EWHC 1907 (QB). Background on Jack of Kent blog. Long live the ‘not-worth-the-candle’-strike-out.

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Sign of the Times

Damn, I’ve just had to swallow my principles and subscribe to The Times online. Really needed to see something and couldn’t get to it without. Your agent will report from the inside in due course…

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