Paramount Considerations
This blog section is going to cover the legal stuff and is mainly aimed at a legal audience.
Children in Law - The web site of Jacqui Gilliatt
This blog section is going to cover the legal stuff and is mainly aimed at a legal audience.
On 29th February I hosted a screening of a powerful US documentary about shaking baby: The Syndrome. The audience comprised a number of family lawyers, criminal lawyers, parents, bloggers & website authors, a documentary maker and doctors. The film tells the story of the development of the theory that there is such a syndrome as…
DetailsMe & my colleagues over at the Transparency Project have been discussing the vexed issue of transcripts of family court judgments NOT being published on Bailii and Paul McGrath has written about our project to research into this. I would love to hear about your experiences which I could then pass on to the TP…
DetailsInspired by the The Syndrome screening I thought I would collect up a few useful resources on the topic of shaken baby, both legal and medical. For the moment I will concentrate on articles which are freely available but I will later produce a bibliography on articles which can be accessed through subscription websites such…
DetailsI am grateful to Nicola Jones-King of McMillan Williams & Jerry Bull of Atkins Hope who have provided the following thoughts on legal aid paying for judgment transcripts. The Legal Aid Agency’s position is that it will only cover a shared cost of transcript where it is needed to progress the case, and/or the reason…
DetailsPanorama on Monday 14th March is about Shaken Baby – 8.30 BBC 1
I came across a curious issue the other day. A solicitor representing the other side informed a litigant in person that under the rules, because he was unrepresented (he was by me, but by Direct Access), the solicitor was obliged to produce the bundle for the case (about contact). The rule says: Responsibility for…
DetailsAs you will know if you look at my article on Interim Removal taking a child away before a final hearing is something of an uphill struggle. In C (A Child) (Refusal to Make an Interim Care Order) Mr Justice Holman declined to make an interim care order – though as he says himself – other judges…
DetailsAn issue recently arose in a case where a mother had agreed that her children should live temporarily with their grandmother, a month later gave s 20 consent for this and a month later the local authority issued proceedings. At the first hearing it was agreed that a child arrangements order should be made in…
DetailsI am reliably informed that a court has in one case dealt with the issue of making a compensation payment to a parent whose child had been accommodated under s 20 for a long time without proper consent being obtained. The court has made both a costs order against the local authority and an award…
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