This Christmas two families are completely annihilated thru Family Court Orders and the murders and suicides were reported in Australia.
There are hundreds more cases that have not made it to the news.
Even for these cases where entire families and ALL children are dead, public is kept in the dark thru GAG LAWS that prohibit reporting of Family Court Cases. The Excuse for this DEADLY law that only protects the lawyers/Judges/Report-Writers/Operators of Family Courts is "Child's Best Interest"!! The Law makers take the public as utter idiots for thinking that hiding the Family Court Cases from public scrutiny is going to silence conscientious citizens, have a thing or two to learn.... They must be prosecuted when they knowingly allowed these murders/suicides to happen while they protracted and procrastinated shutting down of these courts and thorough investigation of their crimes.
No Family Court amalgamation with other courts and or "Reform" is going to bury the absolute necessity of exposing these cases, the lawyers involved and the Judges who made Orders that pushed individuals who had never committed murder to kill their loved ones and take their own lives.
Attorney Generals and all those who protect the Family Court Operations and Operators have innocent children, parents and grand parents blood on their hands. They must be exposed and the outcomes of their Orders and their Protection of a criminal organisation brought upon them in a Public Hearing. STOP PROTECTING JUDGES and LAWYERS. They are the most distrusted people in our society and for good reasons too. They should not be put in position of unchecked corrupt power to decide for children and parents lives. They are not elected by people, they have no qualification other than a law degree. Lawyers are taught to lie to win, this is all they learn. Such individuals should not be put in position of power to decide for innocent people's lives. They belong in courts where criminals are tried.
Family court judges should be allowed see the outcomes of their ruling on children
Geoffrey Shannon, Special Rapporteur on Child Protection calls for specialised court facilities for children
A pilot programme allowing family court judges to see the outcomes of their rulings on children should be established as part of an overall restructuring of the system, a report has said.
Professor Geoffrey Shannon, Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, also suggested judges should set “firm timetables” based on the needs of the children involved.
His recommendations, contained in his annual report to Cabinet on Tuesday, draw from child-centred reforms and approaches from several other countries.
Professor Shannon said any reform should lead to an integrated system offering access to several services under one roof.
These would include medical, legal, educational and social services, while families could avail of supports such as anger management, parenting plans and therapy.
“The interdisciplinary system involves an acceptance that simply making a court order is not sufficient, that further work needs to be undertaken by specialists with a range of non-legal skills to ensure that the needs of clients are met,” his report noted.
It also highlights the need for sufficient investment, which would allow for specialised facilities away from formal court settings and designed with the “children’s presence in mind”.
There is also a need to consider foreign approaches to family law proceedings, such as in the US where lawyers take instructions from their child clients as they would from adults. Guidelines for meetings between judges and children must also be developed, Prof Shannon said.
“The message from other jurisdictions is unequivocal and that is that children and family services in the court are best managed by a dedicated and integrated Family Court structure that is properly resourced to meet the particular needs of people at a vulnerable time in their lives.”