Questioning the Evidence

Cross-Examination of Fact Witnesses: The Civil Law Perspective – Global Arbitration Review Trouble Right Here in River City: Video Evidence & Contamination of Interviews re Sexual Abuse — Interesting article about the contamination of child witnesses who are interviewed and videotaped- written by a convicted child sexual offender. Recovered Memory & cross-examination — A useful…

Nuffield Research on Contact to Children in Care during Covid 19 crisis

New research project: Understanding how children’s connections to birth families are being managed during social isolation and lockdown – 3rd Apr 2020 https://www.nuffieldfjo.org.uk/news/childrens-connections-families-social-isolation The research team is looking for families and practitioners to share their experiences of maintaining contact between children and their birth relatives during the crisis. This could be social workers, guardians, contact…

Addiction

Alcoholics Anonymous (Great Britain) Ltd Al-Anon Alcohol Change Welcome to Cocaine Anonymous UK Debtors Anonymous  – Recovery from Compulsive Debt Gamblers Anonymous UK UKNA | Narcotics Anonymous in the UK Tel: 0300 999 1212 Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous Society for the Study of Addiction international membership organisation but useful articles and research summaries on…

Welfare Benefits

Child Poverty Action Group — campaigns for changes in policy necessary to end child poverty.  Advice line for agencies who offer benefits help. Publications include annual benefits guides & Welfare Rights Bulletin sic times a year. Citizens Advice Bureau guide to benefits Government guide to benefits Rightsnet — Provides advice support and through subscription it…

Human Rights – General

1 Crown Office Row human rights updates Amnesty International | Working to Protect Human Rights — Worldwide campaigning movement working to promote human rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. Batt Murphy London based law firm specialising in human rights cases – newsfeed Equality & Human Rights…

Contact

Cafcass on Child Contact Interventions Children’s Contact Services agency providing contact services in Bristol / Wiltshire area Coram Guide to Best Practice in Supervised Child Contact 2010 Jigsaw Streatham, South London – run by St Michael’s Fellowship National Association of Child Contact Centres – Home

Mental Health

ADD/ADHD Online Information – adders.org Alzheimer’s Society – Leading the fight against dementia Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Association of Educational Psychologists Borderline Personality Disorder Information and Support – BPD Central Borderline personality disorder – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy British Psychoanalytic Council British Psychological Society British Psychotherapy…

Legal Publishers

Law Society Gazette — Publication of record to solicitors in England and Wales. Lawtel — Lawtel provides subscription services for family lawyers covering cases from High Court level upwards (although there are a few County Court decisions as well) with access to the full texts of all over 80,000 summarised judgements included in the subscriptions…