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Flawed placement order application
When you call a case RE EF (flawed Placement Order application) 2015, you are laying down a marker that this is going to be a judgment that makes criticisms. And so it does. In fact when you read...
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Is the system failing parents?
Unlike most newspaper headlines that pose a question, to which the answer turns out to be “no”, this particular article from the Guardian ends up with the answer “yes”, and I would agree with it....
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My blood runs wild (and not as a result of angels in the centrefold)
I often kvetch about the President’s burning desire to make the welfare of the bundle paramount (which on the ground is resulting in me spending hours of precious time removing actual EVIDENCE that...
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The Minnock judgments are up
This case has been in the news this week. What little we know from the public domain is that a mother was involved in court proceedings and the Court ordered that the child go to live with father, and...
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Minnock judgments (part 2) and a different judicial approach
Well, firstly, I’m pleased that the child has been found. And I’m not going to speculate about the future outcome of the case. But I thought that people who have been interested might like to see the...
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Local Authority, go and sit in the naughty corner
We don’t seem to go more than about a week without some Local Authority or other getting a judicial spanking, and here’s another. [I probably need to create a new Category on the website of...
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A witness talking over the lunch adjournment
I don’t often write about ancillary relief cases, but this one JE (Husband) v ZK (wife) 2015 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2015/B87.html threw up an issue that we all trot out to witnesses...
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And I’m all outta bubblegum
It is always enjoyable for me to receive a judgment from His Honour Judge Wildblood QC. I expect that there may be a slightly different qualitative experience between reading one at a safe...
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Bad week for Gloucestershire continues to get worse
I wrote on Wednesday about Gloucestershire social workers getting a hard time from His Honour Judge Wildblood QC, and it is only Friday and they are getting another. For many of the same issues C1...
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Once in a while, I come across a line in a judgment that makes me pull up sharply. Whilst my eyes rove over the screen full of Brussels II and run of the mill sets of care proceedings, every now and...
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