Care risk couples 'should leave UK'.AN MP last night called for reform of English family law, saying the legal system handed "all the aces" to social workers. John Hemming John Hemming may refer to:
Noun a member or supporter of the Liberal Democrats, a British centrist political party that advocates proportional representation Liberal Democrat n (BRIT) → MP for Birmingham Yardley, said he was advising couples, faced with having children taken into care, to leave the country because they would get a fairer hearing abroad. He was speaking after it emerged that a couple had left their home near Basildon, Essex, and moved to Ireland after being warned that their child would be taken into care when it was born. " I want to seS e reform," he said. "In public family law all the aces are held by the local authority. It is very, very difficult to win - and the statistics prove it." Mr Hemming said Ministry of Justice figures showed that local authority attempts to pursue a care order failed in 0.27% of cases. He said he advised couples faced with losing children to move abroad prior to the start of legal proceedings All actions that are authorized or sanctioned by law and instituted in a court or a tribunal for the acquisition of rights or the enforcement of remedies. . "I don't advise people to break the law," he said. "But I do advise them to go abroad before a court hearing and present all paperwork - because they will get a fairer hearing." |
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