Family Law Weekly relating to Family Court
Secrecy
Much the same conclusions as I came to
Elizabeth Marsh has launched the following
e-petition on the downing st Website
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Empower and Restore the
Family Unit
she says in support of it
What is Child Abuse? There is little clear definition. Succeeding
generations provide different insights, confusing many professionals and the
general public alike.
When the Social Service framework by way of the Family Courts merely has
to indicate that abuse is "probable" rather than demonstrate that it is actual,
to require the forced removal of a child from its home, how can this ever
benefit any child? Any procedure must only commence with parental consent not in
spite of it.
The single most effective means of restoring the fragmented family unit
is to respect it and to acknowledge that, as in Criminal Law, parents and carers
are innocent until proven otherwise.
Without this basic fundamental, an ever-deepening breakdown of trust will
continue, thereby eroding the foundations of the family unit and family
life.
SOFAP - Petition
SOFAP have also launched a petition on the Downing
St Website.
Metaphyseal Fractures
I have received a helpful letter from the College
of Radiologists about Metaphyseal Fractures.
It is on my website at:
RCPCH public Child Protection
Companion
This has been published at
More EDMs tabled
EDM 448 MEDICAL SPECIAL
CASE FILES 07.12.2006
That this House welcomes the fact that 4,499
hitherto medical special case files will be incorporated into the medical
records at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Royal Brompton
hospitals; expresses concern that the doctor responsible for this unacceptable
situation will be in a position to filter the information that is kept out of
the proper medical records; notes with incredulity that the University Hospital
of North Staffordshire continues to refuse to indicate whether it will tell
patients individually whether medical files on them have been held; and calls
for an independent body to be brought in to handle the process of rectifying the
medical records.
EDM 447 USE OF MEDICAL
RECORDS IN COURT 07.12.2006
That this House notes the admission of Dr
David Southall during General Medical Council Fitness to Practice hearings that
incomplete medical records have been provided when requests were made for
medical records as part of contemplated legal proceedings; further notes that
unless people specifically asked for the contents of medical special case files
they would not have been provided with them; appreciates that the content of
these medical special case files may have had some considerable bearing upon a
number of cases; and calls for a review of all cases where such evidence was
kept from the court, so as to ensure that there have been no miscarriages of
justice.
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