Welcome to another week.
A free online event looking at children’s rights in family law and how to protect them marks the launch of an international handbook on child participation in family law cases.
The July press release for the handbook says:
“The handbook offers an analysis of human rights instruments, to which UCERF researcher Charlotte Mol contributed, and examines the pedagogical aspects of child participation.
Child participation in private international law and in national proceedings on divorce, separation, custody and child abduction is the focus.
Experts from 17 countries, including UCERF researchers Wendy Schrama and Christina Jeppesen-de Boer, take stock of national law and reflect on possible improvements.”
The launch features several speakers, including: Professor Ann Skelton, UNESCO Chair in Education Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria, Rotating Honorary Chair of Enforcement of Children’s Rights at the Department of Child Law of the University of Leiden, and Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and; Mrs. Ewa Kopacz, European Parliament Coordinator on Children’s Rights and Vice-President of the European Parliament.
The event, which takes place in October, has been organised by the handbook’s editors: prof. Mariëlle Bruning (Leiden University), dr. Marilyn Freeman (ICFLPP and Westminster Law School), prof. Wendy Schrama (UCERF, UU) and prof. Nicola Taylor (University of Otago).
You can register to attend this event by contacting the event’s organisers at i.n.b.d.wilbrink@uu.nl
The online launch is on 15th October, from 10am to 12.30pm (we assume European time, so 9am to 11.30pm UK time).
The International Handbook on Child Participation in Family Law is 99 Euros, a price point aimed at legal professionals and law firms. However if you would really like a copy, please let us know and we will contact the publishers to ask if they might consider donating some copies.
Thanks to Global Child for posting this event, and the event’s schedule below, on Twitter.
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Just two things are needed to restore children’s rights re family law.
1)Parents should have the right to call any of their children aged 10 or more (age of criminal responsibility) to testify in court as to matters that concern them.
2) All children should have the right to report abuse in care (or out of it !) to whoever they like ,whenever they like and have their allegations seriously investigated by police
Don’t hold your breath……………
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Ian you should see what i sent out this morning .
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Cafcass said we met all of the children’s care needs, and that the children wished to return home. At that moment we thought our children would be returned, but instead he glanced at [edited] crooked legal team (who lied and contradicted themselves multiple times) and said “It is my opinion that the children are at risk of emotional harm in the future, and I recommend adoption.”. Then [edited] crooked legal team told the magistrates to put some kind of legal block in place to stop us from appealing, saying “An appeal would be seen as emotional harm by not allowing the children to settle in their placement.”.
My eldest was 7 and remembers the kidnap, she’s always wanted to return home. They put her on antipsychotics to pacify her because she wanted to return home, she ran away from her captors multiple times because she wanted to return home, she attempted suicide multiple times because of the emotional and physical abuse she suffered from the actions of [edited] child snatchers and the lies from [edited] crooked legal team, and cafcass.
She’s back home now, and wants to find a legal team able to punish the [edited] County Council criminals who did this to her. Is there any legal team out there that can do such a thing? I can’t find one.
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