Munby Reforms

1. SIGNIFICANT JUDGEMENTS

British and Irish Legal Information Institute: 12- year old Slovak Boy judgement – 14 January 2014 – resulting in the Daily Mail article UK Courts must not decide fate of foreign children

British and Irish Legal Information Institute: Baby J judgement – 05 September 2013 – appealing to courts to “adapt to the realities of the internet and particularly social media.”

British and Irish Legal Information Institute: Italian Baby P – Essex Council – the famous ‘womb scandal‘ – 17 December 2013 –

British and Irish Legal Information Institute: Baby M R judgement – 15 April 2003 – about taking babies at birth and the right to breastfeeding.

2. PROFESSIONAL MEDIA

The Law Gazette – 12 November 2013

Family Law Gazette, 12 November 2013

3. MAINSTREAM MEDIA

Let Press into family courts to uphold justice and stop ‘irreversible wrongs’, says judge – Daily Mail, 12 November 2013

4. PROPOSALS for REFORM

A list of eight points compiled by veteran observer and advisor Ian Josephs

5. ONLINE PETITIONS

Abolish Adoptions without Parental Consent – to be discussed in the Petitions Committee of the EU Parliament on 19 March 2013

• with a Dossier of Evidence containing links to many other petitions;

The Secrecy of Family Courts should be lifted now!

• with marvellous comments by signers, addressed at the Judiciary and Parliament;

Children Placed in Foster Care

• before the House of Commons since 03 September 2013.

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