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Posts Tagged ‘miscarriage of justice’

Writing About Family Proceedings – A Blogger’s Guide

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , , on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Thinking about telling the world about the injustice you have suffered at the hands of the family court system? Understandably many parents who have been through family court proceedings want to blog or write about their experience of trying to get contact with their son or daughter, or about how the state wrongly took their children from [...]

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President’s Article

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Times is running a campaign for greater openness in the family justice system, which in many respects I support. The series of articles by Camilla Cavendish running this past week certainly make interesting reading. . In response comes Sir Mark Potter’s recent article in The Times  - it makes a lot of sense to me – [...]

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quote of the day

Posted in stuff, tagged , , , , , on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just reading about the recent ruling that the use of anonymous witnesses is incompatible with a fair trial, and specifically to the right of the accused to see and challenge his accusers. Can someone who does criminal law tell me why it took the House of Lords to set that straight? Well, DUR! (as they say)   . [...]

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Shaken Babies

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Last night Panorama featured the case of Keran Henderson, convicted of the manslaughter of Maeve Sheppard by violent shaking. Unfortunately I managed to catch only part of it but the programme clearly covered an important and controversial topic – shaken baby syndrome. .  Although the programme included footage regarding apparently credible evidence that suggests that [...]

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