What is the point of judicial interviews with the child
Author Archives: neopolitic
The Disgraceful case of ‘S’
Lies, Damned Lies and Logico-Semantic Trickery
Judges and Social Workers are routinely complicit in child abuse. Let us consider all of the kinds of difficult private law cases involving children-related issues in the family courts. The courts have used the following phrases. These phrases have been used haphazardly and non-uniformly. I would like to reduce all this equivocation into a codified …
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Finding Parental Alienation
There has been much discussion about what the courts should do when it has made a ‘finding’ of Parental Alienation. Perhaps Parental Alienation must be thought of as a kind of child abuse. I certainly think so, as does June Venters QC, when she asks[1] “One issue that does concern me, and I know many …
Judicial Diversity
Lady Hale is shortly to retire as a judge. Well, not just any old common-or-garden judge. She is the head of the Supreme Court, the top judge. She’s the daddy. Well, the mummy. So, she has achieved all of that and at the same time has been, and continues to be, a woman through the …
Sexual Identity and the Mind/Body Problem
Intro We are all aware these days of people that wish to change gender. Such people feel, in essence, that, although they have a woman’s body, they ‘feel’ like a man (or visa versa). That is, that, although they appear to be female, they ‘identify’ as male. In essence, they have the wrong body. Or …
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Abolish Wishes and Feelings Reports!
This is an argument advocating the abolition of Wishes and Feelings reports
What to do with an abused child?
Well, that seems to depend on the kind of abuse. If the abuse is physical or sexual, the child will be removed from a parent(s) and put into care. That’s public law. In Parental Alienation cases, children are left to rot. They are allowed to remain with their abuser. That’s private law. But the ‘threshold’ …
Re L 2019
A useful recent case on parental alienation from Lord McFarlane, President of the Family Division
The ‘Magic Bullet’
What is the ‘magic bullet’ required to stop PA in its tracks? Well, there are several possible candidates, as follows: Introduction The judge could make an immediate transfer of residence order, conditional upon the alienator cooperating with contact. This is a ‘coercive’ order. The idea here is that the alienator is incentivised to cooperate with …
