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14-year-old instructs his own solicitor in care proceedings
The Times published a story on 13 September under the headline, ‘Judge lets 14-year-old boy choose his own lawyer’. The judgment is on BAILII here - Re Z (A Child: Care Proceedings: Separate Representation) [2018] EWFC B57. We don’t know why the Times has not...
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Freedom versus responsibility when the Press report on care proceedings
On September 6th 2018 The Sun published an article 'They Stole my Baby' - Mum’s heartbreaking tale of how secret courts took her baby away forever – as we reveal children are being ripped from parents in record numbers. What follows is the usual mixture of...
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The Muslim Foster Carer Case – the final chapter
Last autumn we covered the so-called 'muslim foster carer' case, over a number of blog posts (you can find those posts here). This week, just as we'd given up hope of ever finding out what happened to the little girl at the heart of the case, the judgment is out. Or,...
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The use of experts in family court cases involving children – guidance note
We have written this guide for families and those working with and supporting them. You can download a pdf.
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#CPConf2018: Risk of Future Emotional Harm – justified grounds to remove children?
On 15th September a group of parents, lawyers, social workers and academics met at the Conway Hall in London for the third Child Protection Conference, supported by The Transparency Project and sponsored by Bath Publishing. There was an audio recording of the day...
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14-year-old instructs his own solicitor in care proceedings
The Times published a story on 13 September under the headline, ‘Judge lets 14-year-old boy choose his own lawyer’. The judgment is on BAILII here - Re Z (A Child: Care Proceedings: Separate Representation) [2018] EWFC B57. We don’t know why the Times has not...
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Why the Court of Protection gave permission for blood samples to be taken in Skripal poisoning case
The alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy now living in England, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury earlier this month has been prominently reported in the news. Investigations into the nature of the military-grade nerve agent allegedly used on...
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Flying under the Radar: Experiencing the Court of Protection Transparency Pilot as an academic researcher
This is a guest post by Gillian Loomes, a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds Law School Earlier this year, I spent a month attending hearings in the Court of Protection (CoP) as a public observer. This was part of my PhD (a socio-legal study examining how the...
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Re Nichol: an unsent text message as a valid will
UPDATE 18 October - I've added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest and...
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Parents - talk to your lawyers about the choice of expert. They will likely know the experts from experience or reputation and should be able to explain why they have put forward or agreed a particular expert for your case @perditioning1 https://t.co/8GjEV82Rbe