The mother and grandparents are to be congratulated for proactivley sticking up for the child.
However this should not be necessary “The family believe others could avoid similarly costly court cases if the law is changed to automatically suspend parental rights from paedophiles when they are sentenced, and only restore them if the offender applies to a family court.”
It beggars belief that this is not already the case.
This is fucked. I hope someone sets up a go fund me to help clear her debt.
It’s mad you can rack up 30k of costs in a situation like this.
The BBC are going hard on the family courts at the moment, and I can sort of see why in lot of cases.
I’m not sure just throwing “legal aid money” at the situation solves these issues. Perhaps “more money’ is the answer to dealing with the backlog, I don’t know.
And obviously any attempts to simpify/quicken the process could lead to wrong decisions being made so its probably not simple to fix with just “more money” or “better legislation”.
But surely, *surely* it shouldn’t take £30k and the best part of a year to say “you can legally stop a man who’s been found guilty of paedophilia and grooming, and downloaded incest porn from seeing his daughter”
Thankfully she can get legal wait… oh wait, the tories…
Kinda going through this now, Court seem to prioritise contact over everything else, including what the child wants and any opposition has marked me as uncooperative so I’m damned no matter what I do.
Oh, and I’ll keep my legal aid only if I agree with Cafcass, but I won’t know what the Guardian will advise until I have made my statement.
From the article:
*She is not entitled to legal aid, and even before the first hearing, the costs for her solicitor and barrister are already mounting.*
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This is the major issue in aspects of justice these days. The general public, as with everything else done this last 13 years, didn’t understand cutting the welfare state also applied to them.
Barring sex offenders from contacting their children should be a no-brainer at this point.
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The mother and grandparents are to be congratulated for proactivley sticking up for the child.
However this should not be necessary “The family believe others could avoid similarly costly court cases if the law is changed to automatically suspend parental rights from paedophiles when they are sentenced, and only restore them if the offender applies to a family court.”
It beggars belief that this is not already the case.
This is fucked. I hope someone sets up a go fund me to help clear her debt.
It’s mad you can rack up 30k of costs in a situation like this.
The BBC are going hard on the family courts at the moment, and I can sort of see why in lot of cases.
I’m not sure just throwing “legal aid money” at the situation solves these issues. Perhaps “more money’ is the answer to dealing with the backlog, I don’t know.
And obviously any attempts to simpify/quicken the process could lead to wrong decisions being made so its probably not simple to fix with just “more money” or “better legislation”.
But surely, *surely* it shouldn’t take £30k and the best part of a year to say “you can legally stop a man who’s been found guilty of paedophilia and grooming, and downloaded incest porn from seeing his daughter”
Thankfully she can get legal wait… oh wait, the tories…
Kinda going through this now, Court seem to prioritise contact over everything else, including what the child wants and any opposition has marked me as uncooperative so I’m damned no matter what I do.
Oh, and I’ll keep my legal aid only if I agree with Cafcass, but I won’t know what the Guardian will advise until I have made my statement.
From the article:
*She is not entitled to legal aid, and even before the first hearing, the costs for her solicitor and barrister are already mounting.*
****
This is the major issue in aspects of justice these days. The general public, as with everything else done this last 13 years, didn’t understand cutting the welfare state also applied to them.
Barring sex offenders from contacting their children should be a no-brainer at this point.