Welcome to another week.
A father was given a suspended prison sentence in secret in the family courts, for trying repeatedly to contact his sons, breaching a court order in place for the family.
The anonymisation of the judgment was criticised by former MP, John Hemming, who said the decision to sentence the father in secret was disgraceful and would undermine open justice and public confidence in the law.
Hemming campaigned prolifically in the early 200’s to open up the family courts and make them more transparent.
Current rules in such cases say that judges should never hand down prison or suspended terms without naming the individual who has been charged.
The judgment, handed down by Judge Gillian Matthews QC, follows an earlier nine-month prison term imposed on the father in December 2019 for taking the three boys from their mother.
While the father was named in the criminal proceedings, Judge Matthews delivered her judgment without naming the father and in private, and said that ‘the anonymity of the children and members of their family must be strictly preserved’.
Our question this week then, is just this: do you think these kinds of judgments should be delivered in private and without publishing the names of the offenders?
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The Judge was wrong. She has rewritten the law. Family Court should be more open & transparent.
I would like to know exactly why he was not permitted to see his children. It’s abhorrent that family members are denied contact unless there are serious concerns for the children.
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I thought contempt of court hearings were always held in public?
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Whatever I, or Judge Matthews, think about the issue, the fact is that it is unlawful to hold a committal hearing in secret and not make public the name of the contemnor,the nature of the contempt and the punishment imposed.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2013/B4.html
On the face of it, there appears to be nothing exceptional about the facts of this case, so one can only presume that this secrecy was imposed in order to cover up the malevolent machinations of the “Family” Courts and their complete inability to act in the best interests of children.
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Families need time to heal. And unless the family decides to publicly share their journey, all decisions associated with the process should remain private. This includes decisions made by the court and any support system associated with the healing.
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It seems these Family Courts create contempt for themselves.. Secrecy is not warranted nor necessary here. Just a renewable injunction on the guy if he proves to be seriously disruptive to his children’s stability .. “IF ” needs top be tested properly too with the kids deeply involved ,,
Unless he’s a proven child sexual abuser I cannot see a good reason either why seeing his kids in supervised situations cannot be accomplished .. However this country we live in now is splitting family life up at a pace now and certainly pushing Adoptions as the answer (which it is not) ….. I have no faith or hope in these Family Courts .. Secrecy puts them all outside of public scrutiny and reform …
I mean – how can you reform bad practice if you can barely see it but know and hear about it in trapped and tortured lives of parents/families .. ? How can a lack of openness serve trust in the judicial processes .. ?
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It’s a multi billion dollar for profit entity hence its done in secret!
It’s not about what’s best for the children or their parents it’s about what’s best quickest easiest way to not only line their pockets but most of these kids get trafficked for sex, dugs, organ harvesting and adrenochrome!
That’s a fact. My team is getting ready to partner with Military, Underground RailRoad and much more! These corrupt RICO courts with their fraudulent or misused mandates, acts and statutes which by the way are not Actual laws but rather guidelines and we’re also creased peculiar to target parents so they could steal our children for profit via legalized kidnapping using our own public service like our Police which are created to serve and protect We the People not these organized criminals and the corporations and associations these criminals work for. If you closely examine the paperwork it is all fraud Anthony Badaloo and Neelu Berry have videos proving this. It is a definite major, major problem which needs to be addressed before a Supreme or Federal court or what ever UK has THATS equivalent too!
Thank you for listening!
Clarice Gutmann xx
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They operate in secrecy, and always have, destroying families. They are evil.
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Absolutely not they already get away with enough Fraud and it’s been a proven Fact that over 96% of Children taken from their previous families should have never been taken. It’s also been a proven Fact that these people are all For profit and are making billions of Dollars on our and our children’s separation and suffering. It needs to stop 🛑 THESE PEOPLE HAVE PROVEN THEY ARE ALL WHITE COLLAR CRIMINALS UNTILL WE ADRESS THIS AND FIGHT IN A COURT OF LAW TO GET THESE COURTS CHANGED NOT MUCH ELSE MATTERS BECAUSE UNTILL PEOPLE LEARN HOW TO HANDLE THIS LEGALLY IT WONT CHANGE.
Please contact Intelligence UK he created a Class action lawsuit using my case.
Please check it out @ first for news.con/class action
Sincerely,
Clarice Gutmann
Head Director of California Golden State New; Children and Family Rescue and Safety Services
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Absolutely not.
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It’s beyond me why we all sit here and talk of these criminals, because that’s what they are. In a regard where they should be treated or spoken of with some kind of respectability or high regard.
Let me tell you there’s not an inch of humanity in these people, they are evil to the core, they don’t follow the laws, they do what they want to do, which is what suits them.
They are committing these barbaric devilish acts right before our eyes!, right before our eyes!!. Destroying our children, destroying families for generations, generating the increase of suicides, mental health patients, whether it be our children or adults.
This is complete madness they are causing death, destruction and carnage before our eyes, and all the MP’s do is sit down, or fall asleep in parliament everyday, 365 days a year, uming and arhing.
These criminals in the secret family courts should be in prison, every last one of them, serving long long prison sentences, it’s an absolute disgrace what the people get away with day in and day out.
This government goes round the world calling out dictatorship and human rights abuses, when here, in Britain, in the United Kingdom they are committing the same acts , in some case worse.
I think it’s already clear by what I have written whether or not I think, that should these kinds of judgments be delivered in private.
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My thoughts exactly.
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