by Lucy R | Jan 25, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
UK judges change court rules on child contact for violent fathers Senior judges are taking steps to end the presumption that a father must have contact with a child where there is evidence of domestic abuse that would put the child or mother at risk. WRONG. WRONG....
by David Burrows | Jan 24, 2017 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
On 21 January 2017 Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, published his 16th View from the President’s Chambers ‘Children and vulnerable witnesses – where are we?. This was accompanied by a report from Cobb J (dated 18 November 2016). This report includes...
by Lucy R | Jan 11, 2017 | Comment, Events
We have been in dialogue with Women’s Aid about assertions made by them that family courts frequently breach PD12J (practice direction in the Family Courts concerning domestic abuse) by allowing victims to be cross examined by their abusers. We wanted to...
by Lucy R | Nov 26, 2016 | Comment
When we received an emailed open letter from CAFCASS setting out their position in response to our recent blog post : What About Henry? An interesting discussion about how we deal with domestic abuse a number of us shared our immediate reactions to CAFCASS’...
by Lucy R | Nov 25, 2016 | Comment
The following letter from CAFCASS was received in response to our blog post blog following the Westminster event ‘What about Henry?’ : What About Henry? An interesting discussion about how we deal with domestic abuse in which we asked for clarification from...
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