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Today's Sunday Mirror

The link is to the story in today's mirror about the attempt to get justice by approaching international courts.

Hundreds of heartbroken parents who claim social services "stole" their children have launched a legal bid to win them back.

The 500 mums and dads say it is impossible to get justice in the UK and have turned to an international court.

Families argue they are the victims of social workers who are over-zealous after cases such as Victoria ClimbiƩ and Baby Peter and a process in family courts which is excessively secretive.


There are a number of procedural problems in the Family Division. The secrecy makes it difficult for people to know what is going on. The biggest problem relates to the way expert evidence is handled. The fact that parents have to live with the Local Authority's preferred experts and have no right to a second opinion makes the judgments of the courts unreliable.

The Court of Appeal will not correct this obvious error simply because they don't think it is an error.

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