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Family Justice

Adjournment debate on Thursday, 12 January 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Beith. The answering member was Baroness Harman.
Westminster hall adjournment debate on family justice.

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Reference

441 c147-74WH 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

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Family justice: the operation of the family courts. Government response to the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee fourth report (HC 116).
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Family justice: the operation of the family courts. Constitutional Affairs Select Committee fourth report in two volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 116 i-iv not printed separately) and appendices.
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Proceeding contributions

Oliver Heald | 441 c168WH (Link to this contribution) : One of the points that Lord Howe made in the other place—it is all there in Hansard—is that his re...
Baroness Harman | 441 c164-5WH (Link to this contribution) : May I start by thanking the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith), the Chair of the...

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Baroness Harman | 441 c166-8WH (Link to this contribution) : Precisely. The hon. Gentleman points to the anomalies, as did the Select Committee. The rules abou...
Oliver Heald | 441 c166WH (Link to this contribution) : The right hon. and learned Lady will agree that it has always been possible to report a family cas...
Baroness Harman | 441 c165-6WH (Link to this contribution) : I agree. It is to the Committee's credit that the judges feel confidence in it. By their actions a...
Lord Beith | 441 c165WH (Link to this contribution) : I am grateful for the Minister's kind comments. It is worth adding to the list of reasons why the ...
Baroness Harman | 441 c169-70WH (Link to this contribution) : I might write to the right hon. Gentleman and copy my response on whether that position has change...
Oliver Heald | 441 c170-1WH (Link to this contribution) : Although it is impossible to force people to agree, it is important for there to be some pressure ...
Baroness Harman | 441 c171WH (Link to this contribution) : I can only agree that mediation or conciliation is needed at the earliest possible moment. The eff...
Baroness Harman | 441 c168-9WH (Link to this contribution) : As I said, what is important is the ability to return to court if that is necessary for enforcemen...
Lord Beith | 441 c169WH (Link to this contribution) : We were quite surprised to find only one magistrates court judge—or stipendiary magistrate, as we ...
Baroness Harman | 441 c171-2WH (Link to this contribution) : It clearly was a mistake for me to go off the rails and make a spiteful party political point. I r...
Lord Beith | 441 c172-4WH (Link to this contribution) : With the leave of the House, I should like to take a moment to thank the Members who have particip...
Oliver Heald | 441 c171WH (Link to this contribution) : It is important to recognise the situation that people going to the family courts are in. The Lord...
Lord Beith | 441 c147-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. O'Hara, and to have the opportunity to debate the...
Oliver Heald | 441 c149WH (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that one problem is that nowadays the courts treat as contact so...
Lord Beith | 441 c148-9WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. That has been the experience of many of us in dealing with ...
Lord Beith | 441 c149-50WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman is right about the nature of contact, although I am not sure that the courts ge...
Philip Hollobone | 441 c148WH (Link to this contribution) I endorse the right hon. Gentleman's point. In my constituency, I receive an increasing number of le...
Oliver Heald | 441 c150WH (Link to this contribution) : Would the right hon. Gentleman care to comment on the nature of the parenting plans that are used ...
Annette Brooke | 441 c156-60WH (Link to this contribution) : That is quite interesting. My right hon. Friend anticipated my next point, in his usual, instincti...
Lord Beith | 441 c151-3WH (Link to this contribution) : When the Division was called, I was about to turn to one of the most difficult issues that we cons...
Lord Beith | 441 c150-1WH;441 c151WH (Link to this contribution) : People are told what the likely outcome will be if they do not come to an agreement. That is not t...
Lord Beith | 441 c155-6WH (Link to this contribution) : May I point to a further difficulty that occurs in such cases, which the risk assessment would hav...
Annette Brooke | 441 c153-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) and the members of...
Oliver Heald | 441 c162WH (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Lady is probably going to make the point that I was about to make: that we cannot make th...
Oliver Heald | 441 c160-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that we have had the opportunity to debate such an important issue. I join those who pa...
Oliver Heald | 441 c162-4WH (Link to this contribution) : We need to keep the matter under review, but I think that it is making progress. Some of the peopl...
Annette Brooke | 441 c162WH (Link to this contribution) : Does the hon. Gentleman think that CAFCASS is capable of being reformed? Are there signs that we c...

Subjects

Access
Children
Courts
CAFCASS
Arbitration
Families
Enforcement
Family courts
Family law
Parents
Powers
Reform

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