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Sunday, 1 May 2011

01-May-2011 - Dr. Richard NORTH on Vicky HAIGH FIGHTING BABY SNATCHERS

01-May-2011 - Dr. Richard NORTH on Vicky HAIGH FIGHTING BABY SNATCHERS
Fighting the babysnatchers - by Richard...


It is a disturbing thought that the greatest enemy is usually the enemy within. It is thus axiomatic that, without the active support of our political classes and civil servants, the writ of the European Union would not hold in this country. Their laws are our laws, enforced by our officials, their designated crimes tried in our courts by our judges, the penalties imposed and enforced by the British system.



To that extent, we have been taken over from within, but increasingly we have to concede that even without the EU, many of our systems of public administration have become seriously degraded.



Not least of those are our social services and their too-often partners in crime, the local police forces and the judiciary. Their increasingly bizarre behaviour brings it home to us that, even were we to achieve the miracle and extract ourselves from the EU, that would only be the start of the process needed to restore equity, sanity and justice to public administration.



Evidence of just how much of a mountain we have to climb (and how much the rot has spread) comes with the travails of the heavily pregnant Vicky Haigh. She has now been named by John Hemming MP, using parliamentary privilege, as the woman who Doncaster social services had attempted to jail for the "crime" of complaining about their actions to a meeting in the House of Commons.



So malign is the grip of the legal-police-social services triumvirate that they even sought to prevent details of Vicky's intended committal being reported by Christopher Booker, thus creating a situation where a free-born English woman can be jailed for an action which is not an offence, and the media is not allowed to report that she has been jailed, or the reason why.



With Hemming's action, Booker is now not only able to report her name, but now she has fled the country, he is able to report some additional detail.



Specifically, he can reveal that Vicky has been forewarned that the social services of another local authority, Nottinghamshire, has been planning to seize her baby when it is born in two weeks' time. Her new child is by a partner with whom she has lived happily for six years, as a loved stepmother to his three children. They were all much looking forward to the new addition to the family.



It is hard to imagine, writes Booker, the ordeals to which this prospective mother has been subjected in the final stages of her pregnancy, which, as he reported earlier (without being able to name her), included her being arrested and held for much of 65 hours in fetid police cells. Three times she had to be rushed to hospital because of complications with her pregnancy, but each time the police took her back to the cells. They finally released her, exhausted, three days after her arrest.



In escaping abroad to evade England's "family protection" system, Vicky is following the example of an increasing number of parents desperate to avoid their children being seized. Dozens have fled, often at great personal cost, to foreign jurisdictions such as Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Uganda or northern Cyprus (though councils have been known to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money trying to get the children back).



What Booker's research (alongside Hemming) has also found is the tendency of social workers increasingly to justify seizing newborn babies from parents on the grounds that the child might be "at risk of emotional abuse". This is an innuendo so vague that the charges can be made on the slimmest of evidence, yet judges seem keen to accept them. These grounds are now used in more than 50 percent of cases where children are taken into care.



Fortunately for Miss Haigh, as she prepares for her child's birth, she has many friends in the Irish racing world who have given her a warm welcome. She is a strong woman – a quality she may have inherited from her father, the footballer Jack Haigh, much respected in his day – and she is determined to fight for the right to have her family. We have not heard the end of this disturbing story, concludes Booker.



And never a truer word was written. There is much more to this case than Booker has been able to publish, and he will have to continue chipping away at the edges until the whole story is known and the abuse has ended. But, as with so much else these days, we have dysfunctional systems, causing real hardship and injustice, and no one in authority seems to be able - or willing - to sort them out.



Before we see the end of this, a lot more people are going to have to become angrier and more strident, and more people are going to have to come to grips with quite how badly our systems have decayed. Not until that happens will there be any progress, but the idea that we have secret courts ready to jail pregnant women should be a wake-up call. A system that can do that can do anything. No one is safe.

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01-May-2011 - TELEGRAPH - BOOKER - Vicky HAIGH & Baby Snatchers

01-May-2011 - TELEGRAPH - BOOKER - Vicky HAIGH & Baby Snatchers

Christopher Booker


Vicky Haigh flees the babysnatchers

Using parliamentary privilege, John Hemming MP has named renowned jockey and trainer Vicky Haigh as the woman threatened with imprisonment for speaking to him, writes Christopher Booker.


Vicki Haigh is well known and respected in the world of horse racing
Photo: PA/GARETH COPLEY
By Christopher Booker 7:00PM BST 30 Apr 2011

Last week brought two further startling developments in a story I reported a fortnight ago, concerning a heavily pregnant mother summoned at very short notice to the London High Court to show why she should not be imprisoned. Among the charges against her were that she had spoken at a meeting in Parliament convened by the All Party Group of MPs on family law related issues.


On Tuesday, the convenor of that meeting, John Hemming MP, who has been at the centre of the much-publicised campaign against excessive court secrecy and “super-injunctions”, used parliamentary privilege to name the mother on the floor of the House, which is why it can now be reported. On a point of order, he referred to “Vicky Haigh, a horse trainer and former jockey” as the subject of “an attempt by Doncaster council to imprison her for speaking at a meeting in Parliament”.


We can still say nothing about the case which led to the increasingly controversial order Miss Haigh was alleged to have breached. But it may be added that her successes as a trainer and a jockey have made her very well-known in the racing world.


The other new twist to this story, which I can also report because it is a wholly different case, not yet the subject of legal proceedings, is that last week Miss Haigh took flight from Britain to Ireland, because she had apparently been forewarned that the social services of another local authority, Nottinghamshire, were planning to seize her baby when it is born in two weeks’ time. Her new child is by a partner with whom she has lived happily for six years, as a loved stepmother to his three children. They were all much looking forward to the new addition to the family.


It is hard to imagine the ordeals to which this prospective mother has been subjected in the final stages of her pregnancy, which, as I reported earlier, included being arrested and held for much of 65 hours in fetid police cells. Three times she had to be rushed to hospital because of complications with her pregnancy, but each time the police took her back to the cells. They finally released her, exhausted, three days after her arrest.


In escaping abroad to evade England’s “family protection” system, Miss Haigh is following the example of an increasing number of parents desperate to avoid their loved children being seized. Dozens of others have fled, often at great personal cost, to foreign jurisdictions such as Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Uganda or northern Cyprus (though councils have been known to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money trying to get the children back).


The excuse social workers increasingly favour to justify seizing newborn babies from parents is that the child might be “at risk of emotional abuse”. This is an innuendo so vague and emotive that it can be made – and too often accepted by judges – without social workers having to produce any evidence that can be proved or disproved. “Emotional abuse” is now used in more than 50 per cent of cases where children are taken into care.


Fortunately for Miss Haigh, as she prepares for her child’s birth, she has many friends in the Irish racing world who have given her a warm welcome. She is a strong woman – a quality she may have inherited from her father, the footballer Jack Haigh, much respected in his day – and she is determined to fight for the right to have her family. We have not heard the end of this disturbing story.

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Thursday, 15 May 2008

TELEGRAPH - Joshua ROZENBERG - 15-May-2008

TELEGRAPH - Joshua ROZENBERG - 15-May-2008

MP makes 'outrageous' allegations, say judges
But John Hemming says the case is not yet over


By Joshua Rozenberg


Published: 1:26AM BST 15 May 2008

An MP made "outrageous" allegations against the integrity of a consultant clinical psychologist, the Court of Appeal has decided. Lords Justices Thorpe and Wall dismissed as "unfounded" a claim by John Hemming, the Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, that the expert was "in the pay of" a local authority that was seeking to take a child into care.

"Mr Hemming's allegation that [the psychologist] is part of an 'evil' system only warrants comment because it comes from a Member of Parliament, and thus from a person in a responsible public position whom one ought to be able to trust only to make serious allegations when they are based on evidence," Lord Justice Wall said.

"I am astonished that somebody in Mr Hemming's position should have seen fit to put such a disgraceful allegation into the public domain. I reject it unreservedly."

The story begins two years ago, when a woman of 21 gave birth to a premature baby, born at about 27 weeks. The mother had not realised she was pregnant until shortly before the birth. Her baby, known as KP, was born with "very many serious medical conditions" requiring skilled management.

The mother, referred to as RP, has a "significant learning disability". According to the psychologist, RP's limitations "are too extensive to allow her to parent KP successfully on her own".

And the father? He "does not play any part in the proceedings, or in the life of KP," the judge laconically recorded. A man of about 65, he does not appear to have cohabited with the mother at any stage and they "do not appear to have any form of ongoing sexual relationship".

Nottingham City Council began care proceedings when the baby was about four months old and still in hospital. The local authority was granted interim care of the baby by the City's magistrates and, at the age of six months, KP was discharged into the care of foster parents. She has remained in foster care ever since.

Ahead of the magistrates' hearing, the mother was assessed by a clinical psychologist – whose identity is also protected by a court order. The psychologist concluded that RP's difficulties in processing information would make it very difficult to understand and act on advice from her own solicitor.

So the Official Solicitor, Alastair Pitblado, was called in. As I explained in a column last November, it is his job is to seek justice in the courts for those who cannot speak for themselves and who have nobody else to represent their interests. A very lengthy explanation of this role is annexed to the court's judgment .

RP said she had a close and loving bond with her daughter and there would be no risk of significant harm to KP if the baby were to live with her. The mother thought the local authority had not given her a chance to acquire parenting skills.

But Mr Pitblado told the court that RP did not have the capacity to give or refuse consent to a placement order. The Official Solicitor decided that, in her best interests, he could not oppose the local authority's application.

Judge Butler, QC, sitting in Nottingham, agreed last year that the baby should be placed for adoption, dispensing with the mother's consent "because she is incapable of giving it".

It is at this point that Mr Hemming seems to have entered the stage. Acting with RP's brother, the MP told the Court of Appeal that RP did not know that the Official Solicitor had taken over the case from her own lawyer; that the Official Solicitor should never have been appointed; that the clinical psychologist had "given the appearance of bias"; that the placement order had been made in breach of RP's right to a fair trial; and that she had the mental capacity to conduct the proceedings.

Mr Hemming is highly successful at designing and marketing computer programs for businesses. According to his website, he is "one of the world's leading internet technical experts". Although he is not a lawyer, he and RP's brother were treated as "McKenzie friends" – lay people who are allowed to sit with a litigant-in-person and who were originally meant to whisper advice while the litigant addressed the court. In this case, however, Mr Hemming was allowed to address the Court of Appeal directly at a hearing in March.

RP's own solicitor had acted for her before the Official Solicitor was appointed. The same lawyer was then retained by Mr Pitblado. At the hearing two months ago, Lords Justices Thorpe and Wall read through the Nottingham lawyer's file and found that the local solicitor had explained the position to the mother on a number of occasions. In any event, once the local solicitor had formed the view that RP might not have the capacity to give proper instructions it was the solicitor's duty to seek a professional opinion on the mother's capacity.

Having examined the Nottingham solicitor's file, the appeal judges expected Mr Hemming to acknowledge that RP did indeed know that the Official Solicitor had been acting for her.

"Not a bit of it," said Lord Justice Wall. "In a nutshell, Mr Hemming's response was that the evidence contained in [the local solicitor's] file had been made up: in a word, fabricated."

Mr Hemming pointed to discrepancies in file notes, which he found "very strange".

Lord Justice Wall had no hesitation in rejecting the MP's claim. Any suggestion that the local solicitor had interfered with the file could be dismissed out of hand.

"I find it not only unacceptable but shocking," said the judge, "that a man in Mr Hemming's position should feel able to make so serious an allegation without any evidence to support it. In my judgment, it is irresponsible and an abuse of his position."

Lord Justice Wall then turned to Mr Hemming's allegations against the clinical psychologist, quoting them not from anything he had said in court but from articles the MP had posted on one of his websites.

Describing the procedures in RP's case as "evil", Mr Hemming said they meant that "the local authority's expert can say someone is incapable of instructing a solicitor so the adoption case goes through 'on the nod'".

More generally, the MP likened expert evidence in family cases to "witching courts where the witch finder says 'she's a witch' and then the state dunks her".

Lord Justice Wall said those remarks implied that experts such as the clinical psychologist were "in it for the money" and happy to manufacture evidence.

These comments are not only wrong and ill-informed, said the judge. They also had no foundation in the evidence presented in court. "That they are made publicly by Mr Hemming once again strikes me as an abuse of his position."

Referring to the psychologist, Lord Justice Wall said she was jointly instructed by all parties in the normal way. The judge firmly rejected allegations that she was biased. As he asked, "what was in it for her?"

In rejecting Mr Hemming's criticisms as "ill-informed and tendentious", Lord Justice Wall accepted that the family justice system was far from perfect. Changes were needed, with greater transparency to combat inaccurate criticism. On this occasion, however, "the system has operated properly".

The Official Solicitor's appointment was the only proper course, the court held. Nottingham had considered RP's position carefully. Social services had done what they could. "While RP's love for her daughter is not doubted, her capacity to care for her independently is seriously deficient."

And Mr Hemming's advice to RP had been entirely adult-focussed. "Not once in his argument did he mention the welfare of KP."

But the MP remained unrepentant. "What is most important is that RP herself has still not had a trial," he told me. "I may not be a lawyer, but I believe that all people have rights and that of "hear the other side" and the right to a trial is perhaps one of the most important."

While continuing to allege that changes had been made to the case files – an allegation for which the court had found there was "absolutely no evidence" – Mr Hemming accepted that the alleged changes "were made without malice and indeed that was quite unimportant in terms of the case as a whole".

The MP also stressed that Nottingham did have a say in choosing the psychologist. "Given that the local authority was part of the decision-making as to the appointment of the expert, this results in an apparent bias on the appointment of the agent."

Mr Hemming said that RP would be asking the law lords for permission to appeal against the court's ruling. He was seeking new evidence. As far as he was concerned, the case was not yet over.


First published May 15, 2008

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