Welcome to a slightly Springier Monday and the promise of the future. Our question today is about technology and its proposed use in family law cases.
We are told this week that a Civil Justice Council report recommends handling certain cases online, in order to speed up case handling and make justice more accessible. This would include certain types of family law cases, though the nature of the cases and the way in which this might work for family matters is not yet clear. What we do know is that it may work along similar lines to dispute resolution processes.
Our question to you then, is just this: do you think ‘online justice’ in family cases could make justice accessible to all, or do you think it might erode access to justice further?
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Handled correctly, it is a good thing, but I am sure our wonderful family law judges will find a way to mess it up,
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It would not change much in those family court cases where the parents are prevented from giving evidence or even entering the court by their own barrister.A typical case was featured in the Sunday Telegraph by Christopher Booker yesterday Feb 15th that can easily be seen on line.A five day hearing was reduced to ten minutes and children sent for adoption without the parents being alowed to be in the court ,give their evidence or call their witnesses! On line would have been the same but would it be fair ?
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This is just a strategy to speed cases up. How much money is made for each case? Got to keep the money rolling in! For all the justice you will get from the judiciary you may as well toss a coin but the courts coin is loaded against families as they can’t win! This is borne out by the care orders rejected by the courts, less than 20 in any year in the past two decades. Once you go through the court portals you go through the motions of justice but it’s just a legalised process to remove your child!
Social workers don’t rely on evidence, they have their own crystal ball or are into astrology and can predict you will harm your child. The judge rubber stamps what the social workers say and so your child is removed from you based on the balance of probabilities, you are not innocence until proved guilty, as most people think. Your child will be removed from you, despite the hoops you jump though to try and keep your child. Psychology reports and assessments on you and your home but you will fail!
Once your child is taken you will be lucky to see your child at all but a portion will see their children twice a year, just to keep up appearances that they are being fair! Contact is expensive and local authorities are cutting corners, sorry, I meant to say budgeting, in spite of current research that states the childrens in care mental heath is better off when they can see their own family, not the paid substitute that passes for a loving family but will only keep them as long as they are no trouble and they keep getting paid!
Your child may be abused in care, in fact your child is more likely to be abused in care and in a worst way than anything you were ever accused of in the courts which was a twisted version of the truth that took your child away. They SS promise they will keep your child safe from harm. They failed but don’t worry, an inquiry will be made to ascertain how it happened and how it will be stopped in the future but of course it never does! That inquiry hits the pile of all the others. Social workers, Carcass, Experts and Judges are never held to account for their decisions and their ongoing decisions. After all who would seriously put a child into care in the knowledge of what has gone before?
OK, so now we’ve touched on what truly happens in the care system and the MPs are worried, as it bring up too much bad publicity and draws light on the plight of the 92,000 kids currently in care in the UK and makes the MPs look bad. Some might say they are not doing their job! So they devise a way of not only making and generating money for all concerned in the early stages but they can then get shot of them and their responsibilities in one fell swoop by forced adoption. I know they don’t like that term but the truth is, it is forced, the parents did not consent. The family court judges then have the audacity to state the parents don’t care for their childs happiness as they won’t agree to the forced adoption of their child! Another black mark against the mother for putting her needs before her child’s! Yes I know it’s perverse reasoning, I’m sure you can see that too.
Social workers armed with an assessment and a CRB of the adopters, can then tell every one they made the required checks and everything was OK. Funny how people with clear CRBs are often those who have only avoided being caught. The prisons are eventually full of them or they are dead, like Knighted Saville who holds an OBE too! He would have been considered and accepted for forced adoption, had he wanted to apply. After all he was considered to be so good with children! Of course after his death we find he liked corpses too! He was far too busy to adopt in any case!
Courts are quick to remove children from their families and default to long term foster care or if the child is under 5 forced adoption despite having other options that would be less traumatic on both the child and the families. Why don’t they opt for supervision or kinship care? Why? I wish I knew!
The reasoning of the courts never cease to amaze me. When you hear that a woman tortured for 7 hours by her ex husband which culminated in him slashing her throat, in front of their child, is ordered by the judge to write 3 times a year, to her ex, now in prison, to tell him how their child is beggars belief. Contrast that with loving parents and grandparents who are not allowed to have any contact and you are reminded just how skewed the system is! Family courts should be disbanded as they are not fit for purpose and making them digital is not going to improve the flawed Judges decision making!
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Well put Dana, I was worried it was just an attempt tp speed up “Justice” haha.
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