http://ibnnews.org/nationalnews/high_court_quashes_family_court_order_for_abducted_
child_28308_9070633033587_0000.html
Friday, 28 March 2008
A boy allegedly abducted by his mother and brought to Australia will not be returned to live with his father in New Zealand, the High Court has ruled.
The Court ruled that the father's access order, granted in New Zealand in 2000, gave no right of veto over his son's removal from New Zealand.
The Court also held it had not been proven in previous appeals that the parents were in fact de facto partners, and that the NSW Department of Community Services, acting on behalf of its NZ counterpart, had therefore failed to establish the father was a guardian of his son, known as K, and therefore he could not determine where the child lived.
Under New Zealand law, a mother is a child's sole guardian if she was not married to or living with the father when a child was born.
K was brought to Australia in 2006 without the father's knowledge, despite the access order that the boy spend half of the school holidays and every second weekend with him.
Australia's Family Court ordered the mother, known as MW, to send K back to New Zealand to live with his father.
She lost an appeal to the full bench of the Family Court against that decision, and then appealed to the High Court, arguing the father did not have custody rights because she said they had never been a de facto couple.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Our judicial system is a mess.
I find it shameful when a High Court trial had to be aborted so Justice Judith Potter could undertake a six-week holiday vocation as highlighted last week.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4448880a15596.html
Incredulously the Ministry of Justice has blamed the defence lawyers for running over the estimated scheduled trial time. Sadly the burdened taxpayer funds the expensive retrial, which will add to the huge backlog of criminal trials that is unfortunately allowing some lucky criminals to escape natural justice.
Is it any wonder rising public frustration is mounting when victims of crime must wait for lengthy proceedings in criminal jurisdiction before justice is seen to be done? The judicial system should prioritize the rights of the victim, as justice delayed is justice denied.
To make matters worse, many people are walking away from civil litigation as a means of obtaining fair justice, because they are faced with the overwhelming obstacles of increased costs and court delays.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4449279a13.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4448880a15596.html
Incredulously the Ministry of Justice has blamed the defence lawyers for running over the estimated scheduled trial time. Sadly the burdened taxpayer funds the expensive retrial, which will add to the huge backlog of criminal trials that is unfortunately allowing some lucky criminals to escape natural justice.
Is it any wonder rising public frustration is mounting when victims of crime must wait for lengthy proceedings in criminal jurisdiction before justice is seen to be done? The judicial system should prioritize the rights of the victim, as justice delayed is justice denied.
To make matters worse, many people are walking away from civil litigation as a means of obtaining fair justice, because they are faced with the overwhelming obstacles of increased costs and court delays.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4449279a13.html
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
MySpaceTV Videos: A Fathers Rights Trailer by A Father's Rig
Judges enjoy crushing the spirit of many good fathers' who take away all rights of dignity and respect. The family court is a sinister place that is saturated with unlawful gender discrimination.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
USA - Cycling 4 Children
Dear Peter:
I need your help to get some serious online buzz going for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. Can you please blog this? Also, if you know any other bloggers please pass this along to them. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
If you do blog this we will add your name to the list of blog coverage. This worked very well last year.
The main page I need folks to link to for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek is: http://cycling4children.typepad.com/cycling4childrencom/2008biketrek.html
Thank you again for blogging the story and also PLEASE ask any other bloggers you know to work with us to make this event a success.
Robert Pedersen
269-420-4688
www.daddyblogger.com
www.cycling4children.com
www.achildsright.org
http://noncustodial.meetup.com/73/
I need your help to get some serious online buzz going for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek. Can you please blog this? Also, if you know any other bloggers please pass this along to them. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
If you do blog this we will add your name to the list of blog coverage. This worked very well last year.
The main page I need folks to link to for the 2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek is: http://cycling4children.typepad.com/cycling4childrencom/2008biketrek.html
Thank you again for blogging the story and also PLEASE ask any other bloggers you know to work with us to make this event a success.
Robert Pedersen
269-420-4688
www.daddyblogger.com
www.cycling4children.com
www.achildsright.org
http://noncustodial.meetup.com/73/
Fathers Coalition Court Protest.
Domestic Violence is not OK!
In the township of Feilding on Saturday March 29th a protest will be held against a Court ordered sale of a great grandmother’s home before her allegations about long standing domestic violence are considered by the Court. Protesters will gather outside the Feilding Court at 10am. For further details please contact protest organiser
Benjamin Easton on: 0273902169
In the township of Feilding on Saturday March 29th a protest will be held against a Court ordered sale of a great grandmother’s home before her allegations about long standing domestic violence are considered by the Court. Protesters will gather outside the Feilding Court at 10am. For further details please contact protest organiser
Benjamin Easton on: 0273902169
Monday, March 24, 2008
The truth is fathers do cry
The de family court is unfair and the most heart wrenching experience a father can ever endure . Judges enjoy watching disgruntled litigants pleading for mercy.They laugh at fathers trying desperately to reconnect in bonds of love with their alienated children. The so called "caring court" is a sick sad joke ! In solidarity F4J.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Radar Alert : On False Allegations , A Judge's Pious Words Are Not Enough
RADAR ALERT:
On False Rape Allegations, A Judge's Pious Words Are Not Enough
On March 19, 2008, the Seattle Times reported on a story whose ending could have been much worse but should have been much better. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004291649_false19e.html The story is of a woman, Katherine M. Clifton, who manufactured false evidence to frame a man and then lodged a false rape charge against him. As a result of the allegation, the man spent nine days in jail and was placed on leave from his teaching job at a college.
A March 21, 2008 article in London's Daily Mail illustrates just how much worse the ending to this story could have been. It reports on another innocent man, but in that case, the false accusation of rape drove him to suicide. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=541189&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
In the Seattle case, when Judge Peter Nault accepted the woman's guilty plea to the charge of making a false rape accusation, he stated: "That we hurry to castigate a person who turns out to be entirely innocent ... I don't know how it could be worse."
So, what was wrong with the Seattle story's ending? Consider how Judge Nault chose to punish Clifton's opprobrious actions. According to the article, he sentenced her to 365 days BUT suspended 357 days and he ordered her to pay a $5,000 fine BUT suspended $4,750.
Thus, an innocent man ends up in jail for nine days and the woman who made the false accusation, and clearly spent a lot of effort fabricating false evidence, will only have to serve eight days. The innocent man was placed on leave from his job. The woman who planned and carried out the crime has to pay $250.
Please contact the Seattle Times and ask for a follow up story regarding why Clifton only received a slap on the wrist for a crime that, after murder and rape, is about as heinous as they come. Please emphasize the following points:
1. The innocent man served nine days in jail and faced the loss of his teaching career;
2. Judge Peter Nault (please mention him by name) knew that the accuser had gone to some effort to fabricate phony email and a phony court order implicating the innocent man;
3. Considering the egregious circumstances surrounding the case, Judge Nault's decision – to require the villain to serve less time than the innocent man served and to require her to pay only $250 for her crimes – means that his statement "That we hurry to castigate a person who turns out to be entirely innocent ... I don't know how it could be worse" turns out to be nothing more than empty piety.
Here's the contact information:
1. Suki Dardarian
Managing Editor, News Coverage and Enterprise
sdardarian@seattletimes.com
2. Carole Carmichael
Assistant Managing Editor, Features
ccarmichael@seattletimes.com
3. Letters to the Editor:
Letters Editor
The Seattle Times
PO Box 70
Seattle, WA 98111
opinion@seattletimes.com
(Include your full name (no initials), home address and daytime and evening telephone numbers for verification)
Again, please mention Judge Peter Nault by name. If judges realize that they're going to be remembered by name, they may start making their actions fit their pious words.
Date of RADAR Release: March 24, 2008
Want to improve the chance that they'll pay attention to your letter? Click here.
R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence. http://www.mediaradar.org.
On False Rape Allegations, A Judge's Pious Words Are Not Enough
On March 19, 2008, the Seattle Times reported on a story whose ending could have been much worse but should have been much better. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004291649_false19e.html The story is of a woman, Katherine M. Clifton, who manufactured false evidence to frame a man and then lodged a false rape charge against him. As a result of the allegation, the man spent nine days in jail and was placed on leave from his teaching job at a college.
A March 21, 2008 article in London's Daily Mail illustrates just how much worse the ending to this story could have been. It reports on another innocent man, but in that case, the false accusation of rape drove him to suicide. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=541189&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
In the Seattle case, when Judge Peter Nault accepted the woman's guilty plea to the charge of making a false rape accusation, he stated: "That we hurry to castigate a person who turns out to be entirely innocent ... I don't know how it could be worse."
So, what was wrong with the Seattle story's ending? Consider how Judge Nault chose to punish Clifton's opprobrious actions. According to the article, he sentenced her to 365 days BUT suspended 357 days and he ordered her to pay a $5,000 fine BUT suspended $4,750.
Thus, an innocent man ends up in jail for nine days and the woman who made the false accusation, and clearly spent a lot of effort fabricating false evidence, will only have to serve eight days. The innocent man was placed on leave from his job. The woman who planned and carried out the crime has to pay $250.
Please contact the Seattle Times and ask for a follow up story regarding why Clifton only received a slap on the wrist for a crime that, after murder and rape, is about as heinous as they come. Please emphasize the following points:
1. The innocent man served nine days in jail and faced the loss of his teaching career;
2. Judge Peter Nault (please mention him by name) knew that the accuser had gone to some effort to fabricate phony email and a phony court order implicating the innocent man;
3. Considering the egregious circumstances surrounding the case, Judge Nault's decision – to require the villain to serve less time than the innocent man served and to require her to pay only $250 for her crimes – means that his statement "That we hurry to castigate a person who turns out to be entirely innocent ... I don't know how it could be worse" turns out to be nothing more than empty piety.
Here's the contact information:
1. Suki Dardarian
Managing Editor, News Coverage and Enterprise
sdardarian@seattletimes.com
2. Carole Carmichael
Assistant Managing Editor, Features
ccarmichael@seattletimes.com
3. Letters to the Editor:
Letters Editor
The Seattle Times
PO Box 70
Seattle, WA 98111
opinion@seattletimes.com
(Include your full name (no initials), home address and daytime and evening telephone numbers for verification)
Again, please mention Judge Peter Nault by name. If judges realize that they're going to be remembered by name, they may start making their actions fit their pious words.
Date of RADAR Release: March 24, 2008
Want to improve the chance that they'll pay attention to your letter? Click here.
R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence. http://www.mediaradar.org.
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