Rebuilding Democracy
I started writing on Substack about the “family courts’.
But as I have progressed, I realised that our problem is not just about the “family courts”. It’s much bigger.
It’s about civil justice. It’s about the whole legal system. It’s about local Government, central Government, and democracy.
So from now on I am going to be broadening out the topics I write about so that we can examine the “family courts” in the context of things that are going very wrong.
However, it’s not going to be doom and gloom. The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have it.
What you can identify you can understand, and when you understand something you can work on ways to fix it.
What is the “Family Court Crisis”?
I am a co-founder of Family Court Crisis, a UK constituted group with a worldwide mission: to help victims of serious miscarriage of justice in family law cases find a unified voice and seek redress.
This started off as my personal Substack, documenting what happened to me and my children in “family court” cases in three countries. It then became a newsletter for the Family Court Crisis campaign.
The “family court” crisis is perhaps the most egregious example of what happens when private financial interests get their claws into sensitive areas of public interest - in this case, children and families.
It was a wonderful validation for us that on 18 May 2024 British journalist George Monbiot wrote about children’s social care and said":
So this is what I have learned. That nothing is now sacred. Nothing is too valued, too important, too vulnerable to not be hacked and stacked and used as fuel on capitalism’s bonfire. Inured as we are to the scorching of all we hold dear, turning children into commodities from which commercial ventures can extract profit stretches the boundaries of belief. Can it be true? Is this really how the system operates? Yes and yes.
Source: The Guardian
To be clear though, journalists have been writing about this, parents and MPs have been campaigning about the “family courts” for decades.
If we are going to change this, we have to be prepared to fight, and the time to start is now.
Join the campaign
Be part of the global community of people fighting against human rights violations in family law cases. Follow us on Twitter or contact us by email: team@familycourtcrisis.org.
If you would like to write a guest post for this Substack, please give us a shout.
