Medics can restrain a middle-aged man with a severe learning difficulty in order to prepare him for surgery, a judge in a specialist court has ruled. A care manager said
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Meet 11-year old Rosie, the animated child character at the centre of myCourtroom – an interactive social work training simulation developed by Cafcass and Kent University. Rosie’s father has made
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New guidelines have been published to improve the way evidence from child and vulnerable witnesses is taken in court cases. Scotland’s Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, has drawn-up the advice
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A father has been jailed for at least 18 years for murdering his deformed baby after a jury rejected the parents’ attempt to blame a young autistic child. Over 13
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A former Liberal Democrat MP has criticised a family court judge for failing to publish a ruling in a case in which a Polish woman whose teenage daughter went into
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A domestic abuse charity has criticised a judge who reportedly claimed a victim was “not vulnerable” because she was intelligent. Judge Richard Mansell QC gave Mustafa Bashir, 34, a suspended
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The initial impetus for the commissioning of this evidence review was a commitment set out in ‘Adoption: A vision for change (2016)’ to produce ‘an independent summary of relevant research
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The Crown Prosecution Service has said it is “considering options” in the case of a man who was spared jail after he admitted beating his wife. Mustafa Bashir, 34, was
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Domestic violence is a violation of human rights with damaging social, economic and health consequences. It is any incident of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse. That abuse can
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England and Wales’s most senior public prosecutor has accused a judge of propagating a “victim-blaming culture” around rape cases. Judge Philip Shorrock, a barrister for almost 40 years, said in
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