Channel 4 News is working on a documentary that will be exploring the use of experts in the family courts, particularly focusing on psychologists but possibly also looking at psychiatrists and paediatricians.
The news channel are currently looking for people who have had concerns about the quality and/ or competency of such experts in their own cases. The following is an extract from the media request itself:
“We are keen to hear from people who have had concerns about the quality or competency of the expert witnesses used in their cases. We have, for example, heard about parents being diagnosed or evaluated by expert witness without ever having a formal assessment with them.
If you have any details on a case which fits the above, we would be very keen to hear more about your experiences. We will, of course, treat all information in the strictest confidence”.
You can get in touch via email at Phil.Carter@ITN.CO.UK
If you are not able to email for any reason, please let us know and we will help you to reach the news channel, if you would like us to.
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Dear Mam,
once again regarding ITV Documentary. I have contacted them and HOPE for a reply.
THANK YOU ALL for helping people like myself.
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Thank you, Phil. I hope you get a positive response.
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1) What bothers me most is the way psychology is treated as a scientific “fact” when there is no empirical evidence supporting 99% of it and the DSM–like the individual practitioner relies solely on his or her “subjective” and/or robotic mimicry of other so-called experts’ opinion(s).
2) Every “expert” offering opinion needs to explain the difference between an “opinion” and a “fact” and just what facts the so-called “expert” used to arrive at his or her “opinion.” Also, the “expert” should be made to disclose where and how he or she is making his or her wealth–investments in pharmaceutical companies? Adoption or foster care agencies? Government contracts? And, it would be nice to see who is related to whom or relationships with pertinent persons BEFORE the expert is allowed to testify or at least have it on record if there appears to be some sort of bias or conflict of interest! Truth serum wouldn’t hurt anything either.
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the email address is not right !!
” delivery failure “
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Hi there, it does work as others have used it. Try again?
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Hi Hermil,
If you’d like to talk to the Channel 4 researcher do email him. In the mean time, I have for legal reasons removed the comment you made.
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Hi Hermil,
Please do email Channel 4 if you’d like to raise issues. I have had to remove your comment for legal reasons. Kind regards.
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Just the tip of a very corrupt system!
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Can you be so kind to forward me the Channel 4 researcher email ?
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It’s on the post 🙂
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Having campaignd for justice for 36 years, first for the families of prisoners in the 70s then homeless people, down and outs, you name it I have been the voice, but having researched into the social services, family courts and why children are not given their human rights and sent as the silent witnesses to a foster care or adoption, is the most hurtful campaigne that I will have to end my days with.
a charity was recently registered
http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard.com the silent witnesses.
with a childrens live aid day being organised by top celebs from around the world, this MAY be the only way to bring out the truth to let the Nation know of what is really happening to the children and families, In the mean time Goverments will continue to have meetings and meetings and debates, and children will continue to suffer, then as figures show 49% of thes children end up in the prison system.
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I will share this information to families I know.
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Pleasure.
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An excellent insight into Forensic Psychology is a book written by Margaret Hagen PhD entitled “Whores of the Court”. Can be downloaded for free at http://whoresofthecourt.com/index.html
Judges are incapable of making decisions without heavy reliance of Psychology, Medicine’s least successful Dicipline. Often wrongly described as a “Science” despite being mere subjective opinion, it has become one of the biggest frauds of the last century.
Obviously Meadows & Southall are well known but there are many other succesful frauds out there that need to be exposed. It’s an indictment on the UK “JustUs” System that these frauds are not rotting in jail unlike many of their victims. The Forensic Frauds are responsible for more deaths by suicide than Harold Shipman but instead of being punished were reinstated.
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Hi Joe,
Thanks for your comment. We’ve had to edit it for legal reasons, which we hope you’ll forgive.
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he has tracked me down , I spoke to him on Friday .
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I have gmc decision on an expert due 27th have spoken to phil about it john hemming is also well aware of this expert
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Dear Folks, I hope that I am not out of date. Have any of you heard the radio broadcast about Carers in Conflict. fileon4@bbc.co.uk
Consider. If social services(lower case) can do this AFTER they have taken children into care.
What means did they use to obtain the children in the first case of their Threshold Criteria.
EACH statement in the programme acknowledges that the relevant authority uses the SAME excuse for not being made ACCOUNTABLE.
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I am having first hand experience of social workers and police using information as facts when they are opinions and their assessments will be based on these opinions
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Im recently seperated and am currently trying to gain access/joint custody of my 3 children, this is proving more difficult than i had anticipated, the social workers and police are using allegations and opinions as facts, these agencies forget that to have a competent fair justice system, it has to prove beyond any doubt that what might be suggested is an actual fact. innocent until proven guilty not guilty try and prove your innocent.
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I have a huge experience in New Zealand, My case is shocking, very corrupt system.
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Dear Elena, if only they ask me I could even show the LIES that were SECRETLY given as evidence to a SECRET Court in [Name witheld]. I would like to bet that no one else in England has a copy of the GUARDIANS REPORT. It says on the FRONT PAGE that it is ILLEGAL for anyone else but the judiciary to have a copy. I am sorry that you too are in this awful position.
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ITS NOT JUST THE ASSESMENTS, ITS THE HAIR STRAND DRUG TESTS THEY DO, I HAD TO HAVE ONE AND IT CAME BACK POSITIVE I NEW I HADNT USED I WAS SO UPSET THEY STOPPED MY CONTACT WITH MY SON AND HE WAS DUE TO MOVE BACK HOME WITH ME THE FOLLOWING WEEK THAT DIDNT HAPPEN INSTEAD ADOPTION WAS SPOKE ABOUT, I DEMANDED ANOTHER TEST USING A DIFFERENT FIRM LUCKLY THEY AGREED AND THAT CAME BACK NEGATIVE THANKFULLY AFTER FIGHTING IT AND DUE TO HAVING NEGATIVE URINE SAMPLES TO BACK THE RESULT OF THE 2ND HAIR STRAND TEST UP MY SON DID COME HOME WITH ME. MY POINT IS THOSE TESTS ARE “NOT” 100% ACCRUCATE HOW CAN THEY BE USED IN A COURT I COULD HAVE DONE A LIE DETECTOR TO PROVE I HADNT USED BUT CAUSE THAT ISNT 100% THAT “CAN NOT” BE USED AS EVIDENCE. IF I HADNT HAVE DEMANDED ANOTHER TEST MY SON WOULD NOW BE ADOPTED!!!
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if you are a victim of hibbert pls contact me at jane_webb_2007@yahoo.co.uk x
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It is not only the family courts that is a huge problem, it is also the contact centres for familiys to see their children who are in care, contracts have to be signed before any contact with a child, in these contracts the social services have their own BIBLE with their own commandments of do and donts, I have recently had 23 commandments to sign in a contract of all 23 commandments being allegations, so I sign and I am guilty or do not sign and have no contact with the child. When is the British people going to wake up to a fact that social services controle the UK, the SS are in Hospitals, prisons, children lifes, schools, elderly, mentally ill, care homes you name it the SS are there and are a law to them selfs with their own BIBLE. Any child in care are so alone to afraid to speak out the schools are governed by the SS, and a child can report nothing on a contact, where is there for a child to report an abuse, NO WHERE. Where can any family go to for help in a childs best interest
NO WHERE.
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i was in one of these units i was bullied by the staff i lived in fear losing what i loved the most by child i lost everything 😦
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I’m so sorry to hear that.
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The media have had ample time over the years to expose state child kidnapping and trafficking the whole vile trade in children needs to be exposed not just one section of it.
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Do you need witnesses/ victims for your program ?
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Dear Remi, this programme was produced last year, so it is no longer looking for anyone to come forward.
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Dear Phil.
I would really like to speak with you concerning your planned programme on psychologists. I have been to see 3 experts in connection with me trying to access my son through the family courts.
No 1 expert, came up with the most outlandish opinions that were not based on any fact whatsoever. She labeled me as a narcissist amongst other things and even reported that I had the potential for violence towards my son, even though there was no mention of such in her court bundle that she had received. I am in reality a pacifist and have always practiced this in my life, even though I told her this, she still said what she said and held to her opinions. I had asked her for evidence of her assertions, but she would not supply any, nor could she. She was not able to complete her report, due to illness, so it wasn’t used in court but her unfinished work was allowed into the court bundle nevertheless. It seems to me that these so called ‘experts’ can come up with the most fairy tale scenarios as they please or choose. She was paid a huge amount for her services even though she didn’t complete her work nor did she appear as a witness in court. So, another expert was appointed to take her place….
No 2, expert was given the first unfinished report, of expert 1 and had access to it. I protested to the court that this may prejudice her own opinions or findings and that she should start from afresh rather than being given a fellow experts work. Low and behold, she came up with the same thing, that I was a narcissist and even the words she chose were the same sentences as the previous expert as though she had lifted them from the page.
No 3 expert who was appointed because I had won my appeal at the supreme court, but nevertheless the process started again after winning the appeal, yes I had to go and see another expensive expert who also was given the 2 previous reports to look at before she made her own findings. She also asked for more money before she was prepared to finish her own report and the Judge just gave it to her. The final sum was £10,000 plus vat. She also reported the same assertion that I was a narcissist and she used the same sentences as the 2 previous experts. Not any of these experts provided proof or evidence of how or where they got their ideas from.
Expert 3 was able to describe in detail the nature of my relationship with my son in her report, this struck me as fantasy since she did not meet my son and she never saw him in my presence at all! She claimed that she had an idea of it without seeing us together. And what is so fantastical about her report was that she had 18 contact reports at her disposal that formed part of the court bundle, all of them telling of my sons closeness to me, wait for it…. She admitted under oath that she did not read any of them whatsoever. My barrister therefore asked her that she should have, and that it was vital that she look at the information in my contact reports with my son, she said she never read them. EVEN IN THIS LIGHT SHE STILL CLAIMED TO BE ABLE TO SUM UP MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY SON WITHOUT SEEING ME AND MY SON TOGETHER OR READING ANYTHING THAT TALKED ABOUT MY SON. HOW THE HELL IS THIS POSSIBLE?
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