The Custody Minefield: Family Justice Review News

Saturday 25 June 2011

Families Need Fathers and The Custody Minefield issue a joint response to the Family Justice Review Interim Report including detailed proposals for family law reform.

You can download it here (opens as a PDF)

Recent and Current Projects

Articles by the author

McKenzie Magazine: 'Relocation: Developing the arguments for a challenge to Payne v Payne'

McKenzie Magazine: News: 'Relocation and out-dated case law'

McKenzie Magazine: Relocation:Sir Bob Geldof gives his heartfelt support to the Relocation Campaign

McKenzie Magazine: The Children's Rights and Needs Campaign

Grandparent Times: Court Cold

Liberal Conspiracy: Family Justice Crunch in 2009

McKenzie Magazine: Looking in my crystal ball - the courts in 2009

McKenzie Magazine: Forum Moderation

The Independent Practitioner: The Pet Psychologist

OneUp Magazine: Married Parent Good, Single Parent Bad - Unicef Article

McKenzie Magazine: Social Services Referral for an Asylum Seeking Minor (comedy)

The Independent Practitioner: Social Services Referral for an Asylum Seeking Minor (comedy)

Healthcare Industry Today: CSA Reform - New Name and Shame Policy will fail Children

OneUp Magazine: Happy Father's Day?

Mature Times: A Message to Grandparents - The need for Grandparents Rights

OneUp Magazine: A Message to Parents - The need for Grandparents Rights

McKenzie Magazine: Grandparents' Rights Coalition

McKenzie Magazine: Ministry of Justice Complaints

Articles Featuring The Custody Minefield

Community Newswire: 'Courts urged to replace guiding case in child custody cases'

Cumberland News: 'Legal Boost for Brampton man's parent's rights campaign'

Family Law Week: 'Mr Justice Mostyn calls for review of Poel and Payne'.

McKenzie Magazine: 'Campaigning Successes x 2: Kids in the Middle and Beyond the Nuclear'

Family Law Week: 'The Importance of Non-Legal Skills in Private Law Disputes Relating to Children, Including International Relocation ("Leave to Remove" Cases)'

Cumberland News: 'Sir Bob backs campaigner Mike's latest crusade'

The Telegraph Blogspot: 'The family is all over the place for Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman and Bob Geldof'

The Telegraph: 'Harriet Harman faces an inconvenient truth'

The Daily Mail: 'Bob Geldof accuses 'barbaric' family courts of 'kidnapping children from their fathers'

Community Newswire: 'Bob Geldof criticises family justice system'

Family Law Newswatch: 'Family Law Practitioners "inadequate", says Geldof'

Family Law Week: 'The Custody Minefield produces child relocation report'

The Telegraph: '"Barbaric Family Courts behind state sponsored kidnap" - Bob Geldof'

The Times: '29 Best family law websites'

The Independent: 'The Truth about Daddy Day Care'

News and Star: 'The Custody Minefield'

News and Star: 'A Grandparent has no automatic rights. That doesn't make sense.Sunday Sun: The Custody Minefield'

Sunday Sun: Bid to help grandparents

Radio

BBC Southern Counties Radio: The Gordon Astley Show ... on the Custody Minefield

BBC Radio Cumbria: The Ian Timms Show

...on the Custody Minefield

BBC Radio Cumbria: The Gordon Swindlehurst Show

...when non resident parents aren't informed of matters relating to their children's medical history, child welfare is put at risk. Speaking on behalf of Families Need Fathers

BBC Radio Cumbria: The Richard Mankivel Show

Grandparents' Rights Campaign

BBC Southern Counties Radio: The Gordon Astley Show Grandparents' Rights

BBC Radio Bristol: The Trevor Fry Show - The effects on Grandparent/child relationships from parental separation.

Television Advice

Newsnight: Leave to Remove

GMTV: Grandparents' Rights

Catcus TV (Richard and Judy): Private Family Law Matters

Channel 4 Dispatches: Sharing Mum and Dad (2012)

Latest Review for The Custody Minefield

Magistrates Magazine: 'In my opinion this book should be made available to any parents that are separating – it could save them a lot of expense in legal fees.'

Public Speaking

Families Need Fathers: Liverpool: Leave to Remove

Grandparents' Association AGM: Subject 'The Importance of Contact with Grandparents'

Petitions

Grandparents' Rights Petition

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/grandparents/

1,673 signatures

Responses to the Government

Relocation: The Children's Needs and Rights Campaign, A Parliamentary Briefing Report

Grandparents' Rights in association with The Grandparents Association (GA), Families Need Fathers (FNF), Mothers Apart from their Children (MATCH), Jewish Unity for Multiple Parenting (JUMP), Grandparents Apart, Grandparents as Parents (GAP), and the Grandparents Action Group UK.

Early Day Motions

EDM373: Tabled by David Maclean MP in support of the Relocation: Children's Needs and Rights Campaign

EDM1199: Tabled by John Hemming MP in support of the Grandparents' Rights Campaign

Factsheets and e-Guides on the TCM

e-Book: Shared Residence

e-Guide: Leave to Remove

e-Guide: Emergency Protection Orders

Judicial Complaints: A Procedural Guide

Family Law: Shared Residence

Family Law: Step-parents and legal rights

Family Law: Special Guardianship Orders

Family Law: Leave to Remove

Family Law: CAFCASS

Family Law: Enforcing Contact Orders

Family Law: Internal Relocation

Family Law: Parental Responsibility

Employment Law: The Right to Flexible Working