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Andrew Pack is a care lawyer at Brighton and Hove City Council and their in-house advocate. He has also represented parents in care proceedings.

He is the creator and author of the Suesspicious Minds child law blog, which deals with public law, private law, social work, serious case reviews and Court of Protection cases.

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On my blog recently there has been a discussion about whether a court should give greater weight to the evidence of someone who is devoutly religious, because they are more likely to take the...

There have been some very complex and ethically difficult cases arising from artificial insemination and disputes afterwards in the last 2 years. A development in science might lead to some even...

As practitioners will know, the legal test for the court making a Placement Order (and thereafter an Adoption Order) in care proceedings is that 'nothing else will do', following the Supreme...

Our society has become increasingly multi-cultural in recent decades, and places that seemed remote and almost illusory now crop up within family law proceedings. The High Court have been dealing...

Caveat – of course 99% of advocates don’t think like this, and there is no such thing as a deckchair brief. Witness Local Authority Mother Father Grandmother ...

The Cobra Effect is not that phenomenon where you find yourself ordering more poppadoms than you can eat and being full by the time your main course arrives. It instead refers to an attempt by...

There are two legal authorities from America that most people have heard of – Roe v Wade which legalised abortion and Miranda-Escobedo which set out that you have to read a suspect their rights. ...

'We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.' ― C.S. Lewis Transparency in family court proceedings is now an uncorked...

The Court of Appeal have given two judgments in 2014 which indicate something of a sea-change in the way the higher Courts view split hearings or finding of fact hearings. Neither case was...

Sixty years ago, Roger Bannister ran the first sub four minute mile, doing something that only a few years before, experts had doubted was physiologically possible for a human. Since that time,...

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