Rob Williams writes in the Guardian about the practice at Basildon hospital of excluding fathers to be from ultrasound scans. He suspect[s] that the policy to exclude men from the scanning room is rooted in a belief that men are not important to the process of bringing a baby into the world. Whilst I sympathise [...]
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Dads-to-be excluded from ultrasound scans
Posted in equality, tagged discrimination, domestic violence, equality, funny, odd or interesting, pregnancy on June 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Musings on new fangled equality
Posted in equality, tagged contact, discrimination, equal opportunities, equal rights, equality, fathers, parenting, rants, residence on June 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Just a thought. I’m not trying to be controversial or nuffing. But it did occur to me today that whilst the clamour for a presumption of equal parenting is all well and good (I agree its a solution that should be given serious consideration in most cases, but not that this should be elevated to [...]
Permission Plus
Posted in cases, tagged appeal, cases, children, discrimination, family justice system, fathers on April 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Family Lore has alerted me to this curious decision of Lord Justice Wall on permission (RW v SW [2010] EWCA Civ 457 (29 April 2010)). Wall LJ adjourned off a father’s application for permission to appeal to a two judge court notwithstanding the fact that his own view was that the appeal had no reasonable [...]
Big Breasted Woman Appeals Court Decision
Posted in equality, tagged discrimination, equality, family courts, funny, odd or interesting, parenthood, parenting, sexuality on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OK, so I lied – no big boobies here. But as they say in the playground: ‘Made you look, made you stare, made you lose your underwear’… . I’m a little puzzled by this article by Martin Evans at The Telegraph, entitled ‘Lesbian Mother Appeals Court Decision After Daughter Removed’. Having seen this re-tweeted on [...]
Sharia Courts Criticised by Civitas
Posted in courts, tagged courts, discrimination, equal rights, family justice, family law, funny, odd or interesting, human rights, religion on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Times reports on a recently published Civitas report which is critical of Sharia Courts and in particular the tensions between Sharia and human rights and the law in this jurisdiction. Of particular note for family lawyers or those interested in it is of course the community pressure which can bear upon muslim women, and [...]
Scary Stuff – BNP White Paper on Family Law
Posted in equality, tagged discrimination, equality, family law, feminism, funny, odd or interesting, politics, rants on May 25, 2009 | 16 Comments »
No doubt the BNP are hoping to capitalise on the general disillusionment with mainstream political parties in order to gain seats in the forthcoming european elections and further down the line. (I have received a rather unpleasant leaflet through the door myself, plastered with respectable white people and unpleasant slogans.) For anyone contemplating casting a [...]
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