It seems that no-one is immune from the horrible failings inside the family justice system (which we can personally vouch for) and the latest victims to experience the horror come in the form of an aspiring MP and her family.
This lady nearly lost her son to Social Services off the back of a recommendation made by a psychiatrist who had never met her or her son prior to suggesting she posed a danger to her child. But the aspiring MP, who had the means to fight the decision, spent £10,000 on legal fees and was able to clear her name and keep her son.
This case serves as a reminder for lots of things: the uneven playing field inside the system, when families come face to face with local authorities, the enormous disadvantages for those who cannot afford legal fees and don’t qualify for legal aid (that’s just about everyone) and the embarrassingly lax and moronic way in which the system operates, prioritising pointless policy and redundant legal precedents over the practicalities of life and common sense.
Many thanks to Sinbad King for alerting us to this story – it’s about time our family justice system buckled down and sorted itself out.
Researching Reform 
http://world4justice.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/apathy-breeds-contempt/
I have to say when I first learned of this story I hoped the lady would join our campaign or at least speak up for us, I too was stunned that the authorities would turn on one of their own!!
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i paid 24.000 pounds recently for nothing in the family courts as a grandmother
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Just plain nuts and its not the person lying down. I wonder who it could be.
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More needs to be exposed on Judicial thinking and court time so they bother to read the papers……and act fairly…just reeling from an absurd decision in the County Court after 7 days…..the Judge did not address the pleaded schedule of findings but made it up as he went along…..absolutely maddening….staggering and completely partial, even the child did not make allegations at ABE interview!!
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