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Family courts, attachment theory, and discharging care orders
Three years ago, eyebrows were raised when Mr Justice Mostyn stated in the case of GM v Carmarthenshire County Council & Anor [2018] EWFC 36 that use of attachment theory by a social worker was not ‘expert’ evidence and that he didn't need a social worker to give...
Misdiagnosis case update
This judgment, Cardiff City Council v A Mother & Ors [2021] EWFC 44, relates to the case that Emily Dugan wrote about in the Sunday Times and that we wrote about here. This judgment appears to be the only one given by HHJ Jonathan Furness that has ever been...
Munby 2.0 – Revised version of Sir James’ Submissions to the Transparency Review
This is the REVISED text of a submission to the President of the Family Division’s Transparency Review made by Sir James Munby (former President of the Family Division), in advance of the oral evidence session scheduled for 17 May 2021. It is published here with kind...
‘Fully reporting the evidence heard in care cases requires an expensive and time-consuming application process’
This is the view of the Sunday Times in its editorial today, 'The Sunday Times view on public transparency: A secrecy fixation shrouds decisions that affect us all', which features a report by Emily Dugan, 'Our baby was taken from us for months - for a skull fracture...
Undoing an adoption order
UPDATE 17 JANUARY 2025: A new judgment on this issue has just been published by the Court of Appeal. The new case is Re X and Y [2025] EWCA Civ 2. UPDATE 20 FEBRUARY 2026: Please read the latest developments here. It’s well known that adoption orders made in England...
New ‘Parents Promise’ Initiative launches
More couples discuss what they would do if they won the lottery than how they would co-parent their children in the event of separation, says the Positive Parenting Alliance – a coalition of over 20 children’s mental health charities, separated parenting groups,...
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