Children in Law - The web site of Jacqui Gilliatt
NON-RESIDENTIAL Anna Freud Centre — Anna Freud Centre London based multi-disciplinary psychiatric / psychological assessment service. See this page for the range of assessments which includes the Early Years Parenting Unit which specialises in parents with personality difficulties / disorders whose children are deemed in need or on the edge of care. Avocet Kinship Family Assessment…
DetailsBPS Directory of Expert Witnesses — British Psychological Society Expert Directory Searchable directory of psychologists with sub-specialist search option. Expert Witness – Online Directory — Expert Witness Co is a UK Database of experts, searchable by key words. Links to legal news stories, cases and courses relevant to experts and other expert witness groups. Law…
DetailsAssociation for Shared Parenting The Association for Shared Parenting (ASP) exists to promote the right of children to the nurture of both parents after separation or divorce and to encourage and support parents in the fulfilment of that right. Fairly localised to the Midlands and not much on the website itself. Families Need Fathers Families…
DetailsAPNI | APNI – Association for Post-Natal Illness | Association, Postnatal, Leaflets, Information, Illness Liz Wise’s website on Post Natal Depression Liz Wise is a Counsellor who has suffered from PND herself. There are support groups in Clapham, Guildford & Surrey Heath & there is a DVD which can be ordered. Post Natal Depression –…
DetailsThis blog is for links to topics of interest to families involved in court cases and family lawyers. If you have any suggestions for sites to be included, just let me know.
It is perhaps surprising that family law and child care cases in particular have taken so long to provide systematic support for vulnerable parties. It is now possible to ask the court to consider appointing an intermediary – someone specialised in communication (often through studying psychology or speech & language therapy) – who can provide…
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…
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…
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…
DetailsI 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…
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