Gagging Orders in The UK Family Courts - Who’s Protecting Who? Jack Straw to Shut all Families Up
In the light of so many stories being sent to no2abuse regarding the Social Services who’s failures are protected by the misuse of family courts I feel the time has come to speak out against these orders where there is a case of injustice. Even more frightening is Jack Straws new announcement
But as of April, because of a change in legislation being introduced by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, the media will no longer be able to identify those involved in cases such as the Websters. It will also be illegal for any children currently in care to speak out, even if they feel they are being maltreated.
It is not in any child’s interest to use such gagging orders which are being used but not to protect the child but to protect the system that has failed the child and their families.
In the latest case where Ian, Sarah and Crystal Waltons only hope was to tell their story to a UK newspaper this is just the beggining of many more stories to come.
Any parent who is seen to ignore the gagging order is threatened with imprisonment or sent to prison but many parents are now prepared to go that far because many have lost their children and have nothing else left to lose.
This is the failing family courts and social services system that is happy not only to wreck the lives of innocent children but to also ruin the lives of the families in order to keep their own failings out of the public domain. This is a miscarriage of justice.
The adoption rules must be changed and the ability for social services to be challenged without the misuse of the system to put the fear of God into parents who have been wrongly accused and lost their children by social services and court blunders.
(Above Images) A typical Gagging Order use by Family Courts
I applaud John Hemmings MP, Justice for Families, Faccit and many others who are fighting for the children and families who have suffered these injustices that not only wreck family life but sadly cause long term damage to the children caught up in those serious failures.
Gagging orders are considered reasonable when it comes to cases like Baby P and his siblings who clearly needed to be protected but when the courts misuse the system to shut parents up when injustices have occured this is an unacceptable practice.
I along with others will be publishing stories where injustices have occured and seen families gagged in order to prevent them telling their story so the public can not see those failures.
WE HAVE GOT TO MAKE A STAND AND GIVE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN BACK THE RIGHT TO A VOICE. IF THIS GOES THROUGH FREEDOM OF SPEECH WILL NO LONGER EXIST IN THE UK AND IT WILL AFFECT ALL FAMILIES ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. THIS GOVERNMENT HAS GONE MAD AND WE MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.I URGE ALL NEWSPAPER TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST THIS DECISION BY JACK STRAW
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On 22nd Jan 2010 at 10:16 PM peggy roberts said...
mr straw i like to say in this country theres to many do gooders that do nothink but harm to our kids and familys my grandsons in care at hove so far his been in a basket hold by staff.put in a pink fairy dress. and we was told he should be a girl my grandson has alltisham and hdhd his 11 yrs old he even broke his foot and was left 4 days before going to hospital.he was put in care from miscariage of justices this loonechrisham has got to stop before the public will
On 29th Mar 2010 at 07:47 PM Aicha said...
Families are damaged by the court sending parents to prison. This does not help, it just makes things worse and a parent in stress will affect any child.
And CAFCAS is a joke only put in place to make issues worse in family procedings
On 31st Mar 2010 at 04:55 PM ian josephs said...
It is a terrible mistake made by so many opponents of forced adoption when they say “open up the courts”.This invites the reply that families need privacy and children agree!
What we SHOULD all be demanding is the lifting of the gag on parents and children themselves!! The reply can hardly then be “families need privacy so stuff a gag in the mouths of both parents and children” !
Mothers should like rape victims have privacy but be free to speak out using their own names if they choose !Children who believe they have been wrongly snatched by the ss should also be free to talk when they are old enough.
Instead of crying “open up the family courts"we should all cry “remove the gag on parents and children appearing before the family courts !”
On 8th Apr 2010 at 01:16 AM stan said...
We all need to get together and fight this corrups system . I am going through a child care court case at the moment so i cant say very much.the social services .The only way to stop this is to get as many people as possible to voice there disgust.I am a member of the dadpeter website ,so please come and join and lets arrange so marches on downing street ,etc ,something needs to be done.
so please come and join ,the more people rthat everyone can get involved the better.
http://www.dadpeter.co.uk/forum
regards
Stantheman
On 23rd Aug 2010 at 01:41 PM Dalek1 said...
How family courts work in favour of abusive birth parents to the detrement of adopted children and families.
In March of last year my wife and I adopted a beautiful little girl who is now a happy and thriving individual.
She was removed from her birth mother due to severe neglect which taken to the extreme could have cost her her life.
We received an early hearing four months after taking joint custody of our daughter through our local authority.
On the day of the hearing we arrived on time and were placed in an ante room near the court room.
At the time of our hearing a court official arrived in the room we were waiting and informed us they were giving the birth mother an extra 15 minutes to get to the court.
I asked why and was told it was raining to which I pointed out that the bm was aware of the timings and the rain should not cause a delay in her arriving at the court and before I was allowed to protest any further I was advised it was the judges decision.
The bm eventually turned up 25 minutes late and was seen and given a month to prepare a case.
This delayed the custody of our daughter for a month and we had to wait over two more months in total as the judge in my view lacked the backbone to make a decision and was more concerned about the human rights of a bm incapable of looking after a child
and potentially putting her life at risk than the rights of that child to be raised in a loving family environment or of the adopted parents.
Whilst no gagging order was placed on myself or my wife I was in effect gagged by our social worker who told me anything said that could be perceived as critism regarding me learned friend might well work against us.
Our daughters bm has recently given birth again and we have the potential opportunity to adopt this sibling to our daughter however the last time put a tremendous strain on me and I don’t feel I can go through that mental torture again.
Please let the new government see common sense and change the law to stop potentially dangerous bp’s getting the children they have abused back in their care with the blessings of the dudicial system and allow the adopted parents to give their children the best quality of life they can.
On 1st Sep 2010 at 05:32 AM yvonne said...
i am a survivor of child sexual abuse.i`m 38 and they still use it against me and gained my children as a trophy of me speaking out.what was the bloody point..