Saturday World Review:Family Law & Australia Day Special!

Where in the World is Family Law done better?


I will be going on a quest over the next few days in the hope of some feedback here and follow where I travel by clicking on the heart shaped Earth in the sidebar on the left.



THE CHILD STEALING RACKET
2010
'Fury at Ruling in Custody Battle', is an excellent article which succinctly describes everything that is wrong with the international family justice system and the dysfunctional way our so called 'enlightened' society administers the protection of our children's right to a continued relationship with both of their parents and extended family members.

Laurie Nowell, the Australian journalist who wrote the story, should be congratulated for the outstanding way he describes a modern day child stealing racket that is rotten to the core. It clearly shows how this racket has degenerated into a multi billion dollar international industry which is allowed to play God and sabotage our childrens' fundamental human right to their parent/child relationships.
As can be seen in Laurie's article, the family justice industry has many tentacles, all of which are deeply involved with the cruel removal of innocent children from loving parents. That this should be allowed to continue for 35 years and is now into the 21st century, is beyond belief and a sad reflection on how each generation refuses to learn from history.
If we are to learn anything, it is that the poorly written so called 'Howard' family law amendments in Australia of 2006, as predicted by many, have done nothing to change the dysfunctional culture existing in the Family Justice Industry, of which the Family Court is the symbolic head.
A Family Court which rewards criminals and punishes their helpless victims, is no longer representative of a court of justice. Worse still, asleep at the wheel, our elected representatives either do not see what is happening or turn a blind eye to the corrupt and/or incompetent behaviour of all those involved with the child removal racket.
However this does not lessen the morally indefensible behaviour of those dispensing so called justice in International Family Courts and their mercenary fellow predators, who enjoy stripping the family wealth and destroying the parent/child relationships of unsuspecting citizens.
The reason for the absence of a large scale public outcry, is perhaps due to the fact our communities have become desensitized to the daily horror stories of state sponsored child abuse, as detailed in Laurie Nowell's article. There is also the existence of a feeling of helplessness experienced by ordinary citizens, to stop this Family Court abomination, which cruelly postures as a kind and helpful administrator of family justice.
Well documented by many including high profile human rights campaigners such as Sir Bob Geldof and Professor Stephen Baskerville, whose writings provide the world with a clear picture of the atrocities committed by this industry, leaves the proponents and perpetrators no plausible defense of the indefensible.
The world accepted slavery as a legal normality for 300 years, ignoring all those calling for a halt to such a morally indefensible human rights abuse, so why have we learned nothing from history?
Peter van de Voorde (Click on title to read more on Peter's item.) Dadsonair.

The Australian
Change to child custody laws will make access harder for fathers
One of the most contentious areas of the law has been the way it has been interpreted in cases where the children are under the age of two. The Rudd government is preparing changes to the controversial shared parenting laws, to make it harder for separated fathers to argue for a 50-50 time split if their children are under the age of two.Tony Miller+Founder Dads in Distress
Read more
http://www.dadsindistress.asn.au/news_2010_004.html


Saturday scorcher
The NSW Government says there is no need for a state-wide heat wave strategy, despite today's soaring temperatures. ABC News.

Prince William Tour : read all about it click on the Prince in his car (left)


Men's Rights Agency
Australia: Will the roll-back of shared parenting affect your vote?
Are you happy with what is likely to happen to shared parenting?
This short survey has been developed to gauge whether the Australian Federal Labor Government is likely to lose your vote as a result of its current reviews of the Family Law Act.
These reviews, but in particular the Family Court Violence Review, are likely to result in the rolling back of shared parenting gains achieved under the Howard Government. As a consequence, fewer children will have access to both parents after their parents separate...
Vote now and send onto other lists for their vote as well.
Let's spread this question around Australia!
The more answers we get the more we can influence the politicians views and votes.
https://fd8.formdesk.com/mra/labor_surveyTony Miller+Founder Dads in Distress

I have ensured every state in America is away of the Family Preservation Festival Washington DC 23/25th July 2010 and if people are not able to make it have their own festival where they are see US flag for progress.

I am as concerned for Canada as Australia, US and the UK regarding the Family Law crisis so will be doing a 'Spotlight on Canada' blog on Tuesday and a very special surprise blog next Thursday so keep your eye out for that and generally a busy week to come for my Justice4 Children campaign, read it all here!

Haiti Earthquake Appeal

My thanks go to Peter van de Voorde and Tony Miller for their contribution to this blog. Davey

Why is Alison such a P.A.I.N. to Social Services?

I was intrigued when Alison Stevens became one of the first followers to my blog, so read with interest what she is all about and I endorse her work with P.A.I.N. fully and after 25 years lets hope 2010 is the year for reform and matters improve for those involved not least the children so often damaged by forced irreversible care! (click title for link)
I also support the campaign by Jimmy Deuchars and Gloria Hunniford who seek to make Grandparents and extended family the first port of call rather then care, offering children stability and continuity whilst it is the parents that go for 'care' and learn some basic parental responsibilities, as well as Grandparents having regular access to their children's children!
Social Services in the UK are a failure with no council being free of some incompetence or over bureaucratised folly that means the ones who need the help most seldom get heard and for expediency end up as a case study filed on some dusty shelf on a council office and should a problem develop the old mantra is wheeled out;
"Oh we are so sorry but we will learn from this and move on!" They move on but seldom learn!
Birmingham is said to be the worst council in the UK, but I can also sight Cornwall, East Sussex, Suffolk and Doncaster with Haringay found to be the worst borough in London, but there is no room for complacency elsewhere in the Capital! One glimmer of hope is in Birmingham you have ardent campaigner John Hemming M.P.(see link in side bar) and Lynne Featherstone has campaigned relentlessly in her constituency that includes Haringay and you can view her You Tubes in the sidebar link. I would like to see John Hemming and Lynne Featherstone take over from Mr.& Mrs. Ed Balls at CSF and DWP maybe then we would then see the long overdue reform promised after the Baby Peter case!! (Baby Peter inspired my first blog)
I have been accused (In the Sun-Talk forum) of having a vendetta on Sharon Shoesmith as I have advocated she should face trial for her negligence. I qualify my view by saying that as a former truck driver if I were to have taken my eye off the road for a moments lapse of concentration whilst at the wheel of a 40 ton truck travelling down the motorway, and as a consequence ploughed into a car killing the occupants the public would bay for my blood and I would face prosecution with at least a 6 months to 2 years prison. It would not have been my intention to cause death in my duty of work anymore then this director of Child welfare and of cause the blame lies firmly at the 3 'carers' that left Baby Peter nowhere to turn but yet another abuser he had no chance of calling for help from a neighbour or childline. Where Ms. Shoesmith did fail was to register the fact that here social workers had been called to the home on 50+ occasions which is extreme by any standard and failed in her responsibilities and duty of care to that child on her watch and on top of that sought to silence Nevres Kemel (click Baby Peter's photo in side bar) who tried to blow the whistle on this when, if she had acted on her concerns, this child may have been spared!

OFSTEAD gave haringay council a clean bill of health...the week Baby Peter died then had to scuttle back very quickly to brand them the worst Council in London!
It is one thing to lambaste a failing school so it ends up under funded and a dumping ground for other schools excluded pupils but quite another to miss obvious flaws at a child welfare department of it's own Governments CSF directorate, or is it? Are we not just failing our young at every level and what ever is the point of OFSTEAD?

CAFCASS and the CSA or that other wolf in sheep's clothing CMEC should be disbanded forthwith as they too fail to serve those they should...the children!

XXXXStop PressXXXXXStop PressXXXXXXBaby P monster Steven Barker loses appeal against rape charge of a girl aged just two XXX Evil mother of Khyra Ishaq who along with the child's step father allowed the seven year old to starve to death in Handsworth Birmingham , The worst Social Services in the UK failed to take notice of concerns expressed by the child's natural father shame on them, the case continues!XXXXStop PressXXXXXStop PressXXXXXXStop PressXXXXXXXXXX

Family Law Court Judges rely too heavily on erroneous testimony from a CAFCASS court reporter or CSF social worker and I wonder what point is there having a judge at all? It is so rare to get the right judgement and all the other times a judge can sight a social workers snap shot report as his/her evidence but really it just covers there backs and as with all so called professionals involved in these cases renders them unaccountable and not case of redress (You try going to court of appeal!!)What makes me cough further is when you read Lord Justice Ward's comments in the Times 1st May 2008 ( Click on failing judge in sidebar) then read his duplication in the Bristol Evening Post of December 2009 (also in side bar) and wonder why, if he knows the failure why he and his fellow Law Lords are not working actively to reform this erroneous law as it would not take much simply even up the parental responsibly law to include Fathers and stop excluding and indeed banishing good dads from the family unit even after separation from the mother! Dads can offer so much more then just cash and could stop the erosion of our societies and bring discipline and respect so sadly missing in today's broken societies!
In summery I believe above all previous blogs this is the one that epitomises what my campaign and Alison's P.A.I.N campaign of 25 years stands for and 2010 has to be the year when this injustice has to end and a full top to bottom reform of social services throughout the UK is carried out ! It is no good just throwing £850,000 at each council Mr. Balls to simply recruit more social workers into a failing system to which we have had first hand experience, when it is the system they are expected to work in that need a most urgent national review!
You can debate further on here or better still lobby this lot to get it right >>>>

http://www.parentsagainstinjustice.org.uk/

Live TV debate? More like the Pinky & Perky show !

Impressive arn't they?


I don't usually vere off into what I call Guido Fawkes territory, but so incensed was I when I read the latest bulletin from Tory H.Q. (Click on title for headline I refer to) The family friendly party as we are lead to believe, but as a life long Tory supporter I find my self asking at this time of apathetic politics we've endured for the past 20+ years, where is our 'Churchill' figure to lead us out of this malaise and into a future of hope? Even Nigel Farage seems to have forsaken us when his You Tubes offered most British citizens what we want and a viable alternative then a wasted vote to the BNP!
Straw, Balls,(Yeah they both have them!) Cooper, Harman, Mandelson and Smith tinkered round the edges, but as has been demonstrated all too often, self interest comes before strong policy digestible by the electorate and are we able to expect much better from the Tory's or what Peter Hichens of The Daily Mail call the 'whats the point party?' (Excellent Campaigners John Hemming M.P. and Lynne Featherstone M.P. are wasted here!)
So here is my message to Cameron and any other of life's imposters that want to step up to the plate;
Cameron is welcome at my door any day, I will offer him a cup of tea sit him down and explain it to him in mono syllable terms;
You can't expect a bloke to go to court spend £32,000 just to have modest contact with his own children establish a further family home just yards from the former one so as to be close by and accessible to his children who attend the schools that lay between the two homes. All this on a truck drivers wage, then when a perfectly sound contact order is reached allow that ex partner to unravel the entire thing on legal aid whilst the hard working dad has to pay through the nose, £200 per hour for a lawyer and £2000 per court visit, then wonder why the poor bastard has not only gone bankrupt but is diagnosed clinically depressed in the process he then learns in the same weekend that his former partners new partner can take possession of the former home at a pepper corn rate ie: I thought it was worth £200,000 he got it for £34,000 the same unknown guy has regular uncontested contact with my children with out spending 30 seconds in a Family Court room or spending one penny to attain it!
I have had my children withheld now since 19th September 2007 and just 'celebrated' my 3rd Christmas with out them! In the same weekend as the letter informed me that they could take possession of my former home, my mortgage company started proceedings to repossess my existing home, thankfully my pension matured just in time to save this but for how long? I have not worked for nearly a year and had I tried to a year ago I would never have attained enough to pay my over inflated mortgage, there may be hope now as this has now reduced considerably and now my ex who has not worked but claimed since 1996 and her partner who works and claims swans around in modern cars has holidays each year whilst trying to get me arrested for handing my son a Post office book and maturing bond (£2000 each) I was told by police not to harass my son on his way home from school (Wish someone would harass me with £2000 as I travel on rare occasions in my 16 year old Honda) and they still expect me to pay CSA when they are a damn sight better off then I am!!

So no Mr Cameron I do not feel guilty after working hard for the past 35 years to claim what amounts to be £40 per week after several other deductions and which I have to exist on, this sometimes means going the odd days with out eating it has meant wearing layers of cloths and overcoat in doors this winter and often just getting to sign on, on the fumes in the petrol tank then being asked to wait outside as the queue is too long and is made up of East European and Travellers who I bet will be immune from any chastisement from Cameron!!

Perhaps Cameron should consider this;

In stead of worrying about deadbeat Dads why not consider the ones that are thrown away by the state and ruined for life?




In case you get confused (person/policy) Cameron is the one with the hat on!

Saturday World Review : Future King tours Australia & New Zealand special!

His Royal Highness Prince William

Clarence House, St. James's Palace,

London SW1A 1BA, United Kingdom.

Your Highness the Prince William,

Re: Australian visit.

I was dismayed to learn of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plan to no longer have Her Majesty the Queen as head of state of Australia for much longer, but I am of the belief his term of office will end long before Her Majesty’s reign!

I am further concerned for the welfare of certain parts of Australian society, namely those who are forced to endure the torment and trauma of the Family Court System, CSA and Social Services.Your Highness may not be aware that those who took their own lives because of such indignity totalled 8964 people just before Christmas 2009, this figure rose to 9252 by the first week of the New Year! When Your Highness considers the immediate and extended family of each individual, this represents a large proportion of the Australian population from this single statistic.

I am aware that the Royal Family is unable to intervene in matters political with in a Commonwealth Country, but I would appeal to Your Highness to pass these concerns on to an appropriate diplomat on the occasion of Your Highness’s forthcoming visit to Australia.

Yours Sincerely,

Daveyone

(Click blog title for current debate in Hobart, Tasmania)>>

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(In depth review in next Saturday's issue)

Why I oppose the new CSA campaign! click here to show your oppositon!

I have complained about the TV advertising of the Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission by PHD Media . The content is wrong, not factual and I would suggest misleading.
(Click on the above title and you too can add you weight to this complaint!)
The Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission formally known as the Child Support Agency fails the children that they claim to 'have their best interest at heart', and like the borrowed phrase from the failing Family Law Courts, encourage Vengeful and greedy mothers to claim everything they can from the state whilst also pursuing the good father for more even though he has paid again and again The feckless fathers who never show an interest in their children or make a contribution to their welfare are let off the hook because they are never chased or pursued as they do not know the forwarding address.
Good fathers who have paid over and over are persecuted and pursued as they have given details of address and although have already supplied a family home much of the child's needs, made provision for savings and bonds to mature at appropriate times and keep in touch with schools to ensure they have all their child need, these Fathers are forced into bankruptcy , made to lose everything and when you say there is nothing more the CSA tell you they don't care as after your death they will take it from your estate ( where ever that is?) The good hard working single mothers who raise there kids try to do some part time work and support their children the best way they know how, never see a penny from the CSA as they either don't claim or find they are not eligible!
The advert described is not a true reflection of the facts they are trying to purvey !
All in the best interest of the children!
We hear this mantra in Family Court and it is as thin on fact when quoted by the CSA (Child Maintenance Enforcement Commision)
Yvette Cooper ( AKA Mrs. Ed Balls)
Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions







Enforcement Commission awards media task to PHD

LONDON - The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has appointed PHD Media as its media planning agency.

PHD will support the commission in fulfilling its government remit to promote effective child-maintenance arrangements and parental financial responsibility for children.

This is likely to include a national campaign on behalf of Child Maintenance Options, the new information and support service for separating parents.

An ad campaign, created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, is being piloted in the ITV Central region, with the full campaign is provisionally set to roll out early next year. No decision on media spend has yet been made.

PHD was selected after a three-way pitch handled by COI.

When I have a link to show this advert I will display it here on my blog.
Please quote this reference number in any correspondence to ASA: A10-115418

Davey appeals to Joanna Lumley 4 HELP!

Gurkhas Champion :
Could you now win Justice4Children, please?



(Davey makes an impassioned Facebook appeal to this well respected actress/activist!)

Lord Chancellor and Justice Minister the Rt. Hon. Jack Straw M.P. has made one attempt at reform of Family Law since taking over the role from Lord Falconer (who did nothing) 2 years ago, and that was to propose an 'Open Court' policy in April 2009. Sadly this was thwarted at the first hurdle, the judges, which is strange as cases could have been identified as Child A Child B or Family XYZ or even instruct the press to use case number only in sensitive cases. More over it is the judges that should be scrutinised by Public and press without compromising child welfare!

Sir Bob Geldof was awarded a knighthood for his extraordinary work for the starving in Africa, I believe he is also deserving of merit for alerting many to the failures of Family Law in his excellent 'Geldof on Fathers' programme. 6 years on, and following his comment in the Daily Mail just before Christmas, he must feel dismay that the only progress in that time was Jack Straw's whoop and grunt attempt to open the courts!

Lord Justice Ward complained in The Times 1st May 2008 that "Vengeful mothers leave good fathers powerless to see their children!" He made a similar observation in the Bristol Evening Post on the 18th December 2009. Who does Lord justice Ward think is going to put this right should it not be him and other law makers such as Lord Justices Wall and Woolf!

Gloria Hunniford and Jimmy Deuchars have been fighting the corner for Grandparents for sometime now not only for rights of access but as guardians instead of children being forced into irrevocable care, when extended family may offer stability and continuity whilst parents sort out their issues, why should kids go into care when it the adults failure that should be dealt with? 'Grandparents these bastions of commonsense and stability!' I believe this is the key to the overall reform of Family Law and child Welfare in this country.

John Hemming (Lib-Dem) M.P. for Yardley, Birmingham has in my opinion the most knowledge on this subject in Parliament, and presides over the constituency said to have the worst Social Services in the country (I believe no county is imune from this failure). His colleague Lynne Featherstone (Lib-Dem) M.P. for Haringay has also taken an interest in the worst social service department in London, I believe if these 2 excellent backbenchers took over the roles of Ed Balls and his wife Yvette Cooper at the DWP we would see rapid reform long overdue after the recent high profile and tragic cases!


Camilla Cavendish won the Paul Foot award for her campaign for Family Law reform in The Times and is the most authoritative journalist on the subject and one of the first to attend the so called open court (Ipswich) last April. ( Click on blog title) This subject needs more media recognition and brought higher up the political agenda and NOW!

Kind regards
Daveyone ( International Family Law Blogger)

Saturday World4Justice : 2010 Review.

FAMILY PRESERVATION FESTIVAL 2010
"Children Need Both Parents"
Host: Organizers and Groups to be announced
Type: Causes - Rally
Network: Global
Start Time: Friday, July 23, 2010 at 6:00am
End Time: Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 6:00pm
Location: Washington, D.C.
City/Town: Washington, DC
Email: familypreservationfestival-owner@yahoogroups.com

Description
This festival is destined to be the largest gathering ever of Fathers, Mothers, Grandparents and our children all of which will be campaigning for Equal parenting rights, Family Court Reform, CPS Reform, Stop Parental Alienation and more...

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This page is intended to promote and provide information related to Family Preservation Festival 2010 only, though we do welcome comments and questions relating to the Festival specifically. We would appreciate your cooperation with the following guidelines as we continue to use this page to keep people informed and educated about this upcoming event.(Permanent contact item in sidebar)


This festival should be an inspiration to others to do the same in their state capital and major city, we need to get this powerful message across to our leaders NOW! Spread the word coast to coast as I have on the Topix news forum.

(Click blog title to see another campaign in the US)

Good news in Canada is this inspirational blog written by Bob Berman, he has hit the nail on the head and if Prime Minister Stephen Harper adopted Bob's proposals into law he could reform Canada's failing Family Law Court system at the stroke of a pen.Noteable for being the worst in the world , though the UK, US and Australia are not far behind reform is long overdue so read more in Bob's link My Ontario divorce.com in the sidebar. I have also promoted this in the main cities of Canada and want to see a feature in CBC. Bob and I have reached similar conclusions as my Degree Absolute blog reveals I too felt £500 was enough for court proceedings and focus the minds of both parties on a solution!

Little prospect of much campaigning in the UK till we have a robust Government, so in the meantime I would like to alert you to Sam Hallimond's Campaign " Family Freedom Fighter" uncannily familiar with my own case so I offer this for you too to show some empathy and offer any advice your experience may hold.I will support Sam to hopefully his desired conclusion for as long as it takes!
Two urgent petitions for you to contribute to only takes a matter of seconds but very worth while;
http://www.relocationcampaign.co.uk/
http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=365
sign by Jan 17th please

I would also appeal to you to get behind Gloria Hunniford and Jimmy Deuchars and their Grandparent campaigns, this I believe holds the key to solving the Family Law Court problem in the UK!



Australia is like trying to wade through treacle! Since the New Year began I have campaigned across Australia and round the world more recently on ABC and BBC World Service culminating in suggesting to the CEO's of F4JOZ.com, Dadsonair, The Movember group and Dads in distress that they should pool their resources and stage a festival similar to the one in Washington DC in July, in Sidney Harbour or the like. Before Christmas 8964 people had taken their lives in Australia due to their experience at the hand of Family Law courts, CSA and Social Services by the first week of the New Year the number had risen to 9252! This to me is as news worthy as the horrendous Bush Fires in Victoria a year ago and certainly above the current concern of coastal erosion, in fact it should in my opinion be a news headline around the world and what if these records were kept in the UK and Canada or even the US where the totals must run into the 100,000s this one statistic alone accounts for a fair proportion of the population when you consider extended family ! This travesty of justice must stop FULL STOP!