Welcome to another week.
Ongoing failings within Family Court process have been highlighted in a recent case where judge, Mrs Justice Pauffley condemns, amongst other things, unethical private agreements between judges and social work staff, negligent child protection assessments of parents and psychiatric reports which are written often in a day and without even speaking to the family members whom the reports are about.
The case is so riddled with deeply embedded malpractice that President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has promised to tackle the secretive nature in which agreements are reached between local authorities and the court.
Mrs Justice Pauffley said in court:
‘There was, apparently, an established but largely clandestine arrangement between the local authority and the court which, to my mind, has considerable repercussions for justice.’ Mrs Justice Pauffley added: ‘In public law proceedings the local authority is the applicant. It is not and should never be seen as the decision maker. That is the role of the court.
Our question to you then, is just this: how can the Family Court rid itself of unethical practices?
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Which LA was it please Natasha, not that it makes any difference, they all do it.
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I think the judgment was anonymous in that respect. I haven’t had a chance to check around, but please feel free to post back if you know more.
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No punihment without crime ! No child should be taken unless a parent has committed a significant crime against the child or any other child.
Replace family courts by criminal courts and social workers by especially trained police and all the practices mentioned by Mrs Justice Pauffley would disappear immediately.
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I agree.
Social workers do not have the power or authority to investigate crimes.
That is the role of the police.
“When you allege child abuse, social workers take over and investigate child abuse referrals.
This show explains that social workers have a role but
it’s NOT to investigate the crime of child abuse in fact, it’s the police that are OBLIGATED to investigate child abuse because child abuse is a CRIME!”
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This is an awful allot like here in Virginia, USA. A perp that raises his own victim, is referred to Social Services. But yet a perp that makes his neighbors child his victim is investigated by the police.
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Having witnessed many court cases since the 70s it has always been well known before a case comes to court that the out come of the case is done and dusted before the hearing, a court awarded child lawyer told me all evidence is irrelivent we are in family courts not criminal courts, to the point how can ONE JUDGE read all of the bundles of so many cases every week and make a decision on the day, and lets remember there are many judges who have shares in the adoption and fostering agencies, any one can check this out. It is so true that the British are lambs to the slaughter is this one of the reasons for the FAMILY COURTS, parents are guilty and the lambs to the slaughter to be used for money and toys, of course the family courts will never be opened for truth to be told. Bloody British so what now another committee set up,
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Yes I have witnessed that scene many times.
I even asked the Lord Justice if he had read the bundles and he said NO- the decision was already made before he came on the case.
It is surely available from the transcripts…….??? oh wait the transcripts were altered and bore no resemblance to the court we were in.
I spoke for over 40 mins and there was 1 SENTENCE re me in the transcript.
When that was pointed out the Barrister literally went crazy, stormed out of the room, made a phone call? and then he asked us to leave.
One has to experience it to believe it…..so of course proceedings have to be in secret.
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Natasha, I am but one of thousands of families and having also paid personally thousands of pounds only to be told by the judge when I said
Please your honour may I speak only to be told
This is my court you will do as I tell you now leave my court
as I said I am not the only one to be told to leave the court and also I was not allowed to produce evidence, it never went passed the main entrance
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I was told to leave by the renowned Judge Dodds, because he didn’t like the look on my face.
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I’m so sorry.
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That is actually a normal pattern in my experience.
Its MY COURT.?? and i will do as I please.
These old Inquisition courts with their old medieval rules – not laws- belong in the dark ages and serve no one in 2016.
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They are the exact words Dodds Used. Plus “I can see Mr Howard disagrees with me, but I am the one sitting here”
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To be independent from social services.
It should be illegal for social services to speak to court as this is influencing objectivity.
The court adopts a narrow approach that no matter what the child needs to see the face of the father.
This imbalanced view from the court does not take into consideration the abuse the father is subjecting the child to.
This approach is leaving children at risk and now proven to have left children to be abused.
The child needs the parent who protects them not the other.
We live in 2016, children have rights too but the family court still does not recognise that and the most vulnerable are allowed to be abused because court orders so.
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I can only repeat “ABOLISH SOCIAL WORKERS”, “ABOLISH FAMILY COURTS”
“ABOLISH PUNISHMENT WITHOUT CRIME” “ABOLISH GAGGING ORDERS”
“ABOLISH ORDERS FORBIDDING INDIRECT CONTACT” and “ABOLISH AGREEMENTS FORCED ON PARENTS AND THE CHILDREN THEY VISIT IBN CARE NOT TO DISCUSS ABUSE IN CARE,THE POSSIBILITY OF RETURNING HOME, THE CASE,LOVE OF ANY KIND ,and Not to speak their own language if foreign !
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If we must have Family Courts, and I don’t think we’re going to see the end of them, they have to be radically changed if this sort of corruption is to be stopped. For a start, they must cease to be adversarial. They should actually act in children and families’ best interests, not just trumpet it. I think there should be three judges in each case, as in the Magistrates Courts. They should cease to be ‘secretive’ and be open to scrutiny, with parents and children’s names altered or deleted from reports as and when necessary. Any ‘co-operation’ between judges and outside bodies such as social services, CAFCASS and ‘expert witnesses’ should result in the sacking of those guilty, on both sides.
Facts, such as the irrefutable one that most children are better knowing both parents whether or not those parents live together, should be recognised by the Court. If the natural Parents are incapable or unable to look after their children, but the Grandparents are, there should be no question that they should. Politically-correct opinions by social services that lead to children losing touch with their birth families by being placed with strangers, when there are family members able and willing to nurture them, should not influence the Judge. Many of these ‘recommendations’ are motivated by money.
Some fifteen years ago, in the High Court, Bob Geldof was warned by a Court official not to mention that he loved his children as it would be regarded as an ‘extreme’ statement, and damage his case. The Court system has not advanced much since then despite all the protests by fathers, by whistleblowers, and by the hundreds of cases reported in the Press (never mind countless ones not reported) of tragic outcomes due to bizarre and wrong judgments made by Social Services and Family Court Judges, quite often I think in collaboration. This really must stop – it should never have started – and only a fundamental change in outlook and thinking will stop it, in Courts where ‘love’ is not a dirty word.
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https://www.rt.com/uk/356717-secret-drug-trials-children/
so steal the kids and as many of us are aware kids in care used for drugs just like Ritalin
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This is exactly as it is.
Like our judge said .” Yes I apologise for all the perjury and lies ….BUT I MUST OBEY THE SOCIAL WORKER.”
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Why must the judge obey the social worker??? Why……?
In my research and I know some of what is online is wrong/misinformation, But!!
Everything comes back to the queen, Everything!!
HM Courts, Police, Forces, Taxes etc, Everything!!
If you google: The Queen London. It is a Corporation! Hence as above…….!!! The Courts are Her Majesty’s, so is that Corporation run too???
Please help me out here, bottom line like everyone else,
I JUST WANT MY CHILDREN BACK, NOW!!! WHERE THEY BELONG, ALONG TOO WITH EVERYONE ELSES.
I have tried my best with contacting legal and MP’s, MP’s send you to your legal, legal send you to your MP because of legistration passed through government, it is like a tennis match.
So, I have written to the Queen asking of her and the elite to please stop taking “Our Children for Forced Adoption”. To which as yet, no response!! Letter initially sent 04.10.2011 but has been resubmitted.
Having being aware of the elites, I jumped and picked up on the elites when in mainstream news on the morning of the announcement of leaving the EU, a reporter asked, of the two being interviewed, if I recall correctly, “what’s next?” The woman replied, either, that depends on the elite, or, that’s up to the elite now and where they take us. Apologies if not word perfect! Please check this out.
So I wrote to the top, if this does not work, I really do not know where to go or what to do, where DO you go after the top???
I am just along with us all trying to do my best and be a voice for Our Children.
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To get an understanding how High Society works in the US have a look at a new blog entry on Veterans Today – powered by brave and smart people:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/24/vt-exclusive-largest-pedophile-ring-in-history-70000-members-heads-of-state-the-rats-scramble/
It attracted many interesting comments e.g.:
Aleah Holland
August 28, 2016 at 2:21 am
90% of their children come from U.S. Family Courts like Linda Wiegand son were satanically sexually assaulted-MK Ultra’ed
and stolen from her by judges in Connecticut it’s a pandemic. 2 million children a year being sex trafficked MK ultra educate-yourself.org mask in trillions of dollars of fake services- book “The Worst Interest of a Child” by Keith Harmon Snow covers more recent stories throughout US of Family Courts Satanic sex on children….. Manchurian-MK ULTRA programs ….
Here are Henry Makow PhD views on what is going on in society:
http://henrymakow.com/insiderexposesfamous.html
http://henrymakow.com/illuminati-pedophiles-run-brit.html
There is some recent research on the alleged abuse group surrounding Edward Heath on this download site with a clickable URL to an important leaked document:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298350337_THE_SATANIST_CULT_OF_TED_HEATH_ETHICAL_IMPLICATIONS_OF_AUTHORITY_COMPROMISE
Some info on who appears to be behind the ‘Discourse of Disbelief’ that plagues the Family Court system:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298350189_POOR_QUALITY_OF_MENTAL_HEALTH_REPORTS_IN_UK_FAMILY_COURTS_A_CALL_TO_ACTION
Essentially we have been ruled by Satanist for a very long time!
They can abuse, rape and murder largely with impunity.
The Children’s Act (1989) is a misnomer – should have been called ‘The Management of Acts with Children Act’ as it created the Child Smuggling system.
There will be an interesting interview on the Richie Allen Show on Thursday 8th September at 9pm covering some of these issues.
Ordinary individuals need to rise against the tyranny and misery inflicted from High Society.
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Are you saying that Judges in the USA do not embrace SW’s and blatant LIES? In the UK, there is NO such feedback to the Queen if a Judge acts erratic and out of sorts. Dunno where you got that ichinendaimoku. That is myth. Judges here makes their own Laws while disrespecting Families Human Rights.
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That was an interesting comment. That case involving Linda Wiegans was much different to how it is spread on conspiracy sites. It’s such a shame that people’s lives can be left like that on the internet forever, children’s lives. Though the children are adults now.
That research, it isn’t peer reviewed research is it? It looks like poster presentations for a conference. The only references on the one about Ted Heath is to other things by the author.
All I can say about Henry Makow is read this, or perhaps on the Southern Poverty Law Centre which tracks extremists and hate groups like the KKK.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Henry_Makow
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’ Mrs Justice Pauffley added: ‘In public law proceedings the local authority is the applicant. It is not and should never be seen as the decision maker. That is the role of the court.”
They are the exact words I used to the judge in our case, but he shot me down saying the social worker had the power over him???
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To illustrate the severity of the problems I uploaded a redacted GMC Fitness to Practice Concern submission to this blog:
The mother recorded the assessment sessions and provided a transcript to the GMC.
Some of the chilling details of the submission:
– The Psychiatrist claimed that submitting repeated applications to get children returned into the mother’s care as evidence for a personality disorder.
– The Psychiatrist claimed that the mother remained ‘unsmiling’ when there were according to the transcript 50+(!) occasions of smiling, laughing, giggling.
– The Psychiatrist claimed that changing frequency of therapy from twice to once per week was evidence for ‘impulsive behaviour’ when actually the Psychiatrist on several occasions suggested to make this change in the first place.
– The Psychiatrists offered no valid evidence to support the ‘diagnosis’ proffered – just quoted a definition and stated that the definition applies.
The concern finished on the worry that this Psychiatrist would shield sexual abusers – a worry that seems to be justified by events that unfolded since.
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Another case of protection for the so called court experts an email was sent today from the HCPC to say yet again to a grandmother who has been fighting so hard to clear her name this is a case that has been on going ON for 5 years, the HCPC state yet again there is no evidence against the court expert, my god so what chance have any of the families got in a court of law against HEAR SAY ONLY.
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Frankly the Family Courts are not fit for purpose. Decisions are made before a word is uttered by parents or extended family. Pointless that a Judge sits as he/she is led by social workers. The tail really does wag the dog! Do Judges even bother to read all the papers and question what is written when surely even they can see all the glaring anomalies? No! They don’t! There is only one thing to do and that is close the courts and bring in a new system that is family focused and fair. The Family Court is an abomination to Justice.
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Judges are allegedly educated people, they cannot be complete idiots, and as only a complete idiot could see the same old “evidence” the same catch phrases used time and time again without realising it was all Bull****, therefore they must be complicit in what is basically a criminal act which causes so much long lasting emotional pain to the children and families unfortunate enough to get caught in the evil web of the family courts.
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One very good point is that every child in care their social workers are constantly changed a kid can have up to 6 or more different social workers in one year, and I know this to be true from the help line as I question every parent on this issue, so at the end of the day this is a cover up with no stability for any kids and the social workers have no comments. It may all start at the bottom with the S/W but it goes further up the ladder, so why keep changing S/W for EVERY KID and this is throughout the country.
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Natasha, can we get more details n this case please? As it bears similarities to our’s. It seems they bought the Judge or she was prejudicial. She also asked me to leave her Courtroom! AS far as I know.. Judges are supposed to form their own view and make their decisions but, do they?? No! They rather collude with the LA and the imperious lying OS. I am hoping our case ends up before the President for JR as that is the recourse I seek atm.. I’m NOT giving up. Justice must be served one way or another.
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Actually this case seems to be from 2014!?!
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed127643
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Fortunately, this is not a new case. The Mail article stems from Feb 2014 and the case took place in January 2014. The quotation used here begins at paragraph 67.
Here’s a link to an article which includes a link to the judgment.
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed127666
However, here’s a link to a new case which is also very alarming and should be widely discussed.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2016/2149.html
This one also revolves around a less than satisfactory psychologist’s report!
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I became involved in care proceedings in Oct 1999. I was shocked to learn that social workers and social work staff, along with other ‘professionals’, are able to twist a parent’s words without being challenged and use it against them. When a parent’s description of an event differs from a sw’s, it is the latter who always is taken notice of if even if they weren’t present when it happened, or didn’t know the parent at the time. I eventually came to the conclusion that when a sw wants a care order via court, all they effectively really need to do is walk into that court and say to the judge “I want a care order” and it will be granted. Other justified criticisms have already been covered by previous letters. What is shocking is that it is still happening and children’s lives continue to be ruined by the unnecessary splitting up of families.
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Further to a comment I have just submitted, I would like to make the following points: when a parent has not had previous experience of the family court/care proceedings, unlike the other participants – sws, guardian, psychologists, etc – they have no idea of the system or how it works and so have to rely on their solicitor who invariably lets them down by not doing everything possible to support and defend the parent. Parents are then often at a loss as to know what to do when they don’t feel something isn’t right. Further, if judges Munby and Pauffley have been aware of the corruption within the family courts for such a long time then why haven’t they done anything about it?
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Because Munby and the likes of Pauffley would no longer be judges, and if truth be known NO ONE can tell me there are only 2 judges in the whole of England Scotland and Wales who know of the corruption, if the judges and courts really cared for the children taken on allegations then they would all speak out, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN to much money involved.
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I agree with you Maggie, but these are the top judges in the country – well, at least Munby is – and should use their position to tackle the problem of corruption within the family courts. However, they haven’t done anything useful other than speak out about the problem, but speaking about it and taking action to stop it are two different things and they haven’t done anything. Having experienced SS and the family courts, as well as learning of the experiences of others, I can safely say there are a lot of corrupt sws, judges and other so-called professionals involved in the family court and have been for many years – no doubt far more than I am aware of, and certainly long before my involvement: it is a decades’ old problem. I actually wrote to the family court following the ‘decision’ to grant SS a full care order regarding many of the lies that had been told, and which I could prove. The response I received made it quite clear they couldn’t care less.
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http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2016/08/23/mother-of-child-in-care-complains-of-misrepresentation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarilynStoweFamilyLawAndDivorceBlog+%28Marilyn+Stowe+Family+Law+and+Divorce+Blog%29
Another so called expert in todays news exposed for the lies told to the court
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I was banned from using social media by Police going beyond their powers – in their desperate attempts to shut me up and grind me down. But this question is at least worth asking – even if no answer will be implemented!…
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I have gone through the same mess for three longvsolidvyears fightingvcorrupt social workers to corrupt twisted judges to bent guardian and legal teams telling you not to complain against ssh and accept what the social workers are saying.
To corrupt experts to physiologist I am still trying for truth and justice
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This practice is illegal but, yet still the bloody Judges does it. Why can’t there be an “Impartial Court Overseer”??..This Judge made a secret agreement with the lying whistle blower and the LA/OS but, it turned out to be disastrous and once I took it back to the shameless Judge highlighting the failures and collusion, my case is deemed as “totally out of merit” and dismissed, when they should have apologised.
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it is time we the families bought a class action against the corruption of the courts and the armies in a child’s life in care if the families do not do it then there will never be any chance for the kids, and as the EU countries are in talks with their concerns of the child abuse in the UK this just may support a class action,
ANY ONE UP FOR IT.
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I am 100% ready for this ‘Class Action Against the inept Family Court System’. This has to be stopped as it is HUMAN BEINGS that is being destroyed. Even ANIMALS will not be treated this harrowing way in any Society. They belong with their Families so, is Human Interests of least importance than Animals? Which comes first?
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