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Children travelling to join ISIS
The Tower Hamlets case attracted quite a bit of media attention, and the judgment is now out. It contains quite a bit of practical guidance for all agencies where there is a concern that a child is...
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ISIS and children being taken to Syria
I have to say, even after years and years of doing child protection law, I never actually thought I’d see cases in Court where parents were trying to get their children to become terrorists and fight...
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Radicalisation of children and ISIS – Jihadi Brides
This is a very powerful and disturbing case. As Hayden J says, this is a whole new category of child abuse which professionals and Courts are learning about very quickly, it just wasn’t something...
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Totally radical, dude
“Put them in the Iron Maiden” The President has published guidance on radicalisation cases within the family Court, which you can find here:-...
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We’ve gone on holiday by mistake
The outcome of the President’s case involving parents who were found, with their four children (aged between 20 months and 7 years old) around the border between Turkey and Syria, with the...
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The ISIS flag is apparently not a red flag
The President has published his judgment in one of the “are parents taking children to join up with ISIS?” cases This one he has previously given judgment on, and ruled that at an interim stage...
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“Fell far short of the promise foreshadowed in her CV” (radicalisation, Tower...
This is the Hayden J judgment in the Tower Hamlets case involving the girl who had tried to go to Syria having been exposed to extremist videos and propaganda of the most alarming kind. I wrote about...
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Jihadi Toddler
Of course the toddler himself didn’t have any Jihadist inclinations, but this is the judgment from the care proceedings where a mother actually took her toddler to Syria, into the war zone and photos...
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Back off War child. Seriously
Yet another alleged radicalisation case, this time private law. Amongst the many allegations, that the father had wanted to give the child a name which in Arabic meant “War” And if you think that a...
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Disclosure to the security services
Well, applications for disclosure of care proceedings to the police is something that we are used to, but an application to disclose papers in care proceedings to the Security Services is something...
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Cloak and dagger threshold
The word Kafka-esque crops up a lot when you talk about the family Courts, but here’s one where it is actually apt. Whatever the evidence was against the parents, not only could they not see it, but...
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That’s when I start promising the world to a brand new girl I don’t even know...
Next thing, she’s wearing my Rolex. I wrote about Part 1 of the Pauffley J hearing about alleged radicalisation where all of the evidence that might prove whether threshold criteria existed or not...
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In which MacDonald J asks the question and answers it in paragraph 1 of the...
Which is something that I’d like to see more often. The question before me is whether the High Court has power, under its inherent jurisdiction, to make a costs funding order against a local...
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Radical mountaineering in Leicestershire
A family with their three adult children and three minor children were stopped at Harwich port, we don’t know the reasons (but can probably guess). The father’s home was searched as a result and some...
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