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why are these courts allowed to get away with it i feel so sorry for mark and his girls
i know mark and his daughter lisa
he taught my daughter to drive she liked him and ithink he is a good man
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The courts where some are more equal than others before the law
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The most elementary principle of justice in a democracy is that all are held to be equal in the eyes of the law. On the evidence of this book it is now abundantly clear that a father, far from being equal in disputes over access to his children, is held to be of no account in the secret family courts. He is liable to be dispossessed of all contact with his children at will by his former wife or partner on a whim or as part of a family feud. Mark Harris' one mistake was to marry into a family of vindictive sociopaths who forcibly abducted his wife and children and smashed up the family home. That he stayed in touch with those children and stuck it out through truly Kafkaesque abuse of legal process by the secret family courts and their corrupt mendacious judges, counsel and so called experts for 10 years, until the passage of time allowed his children to make their own choice, is a tribute to human endurance on a parallel with any other I have read about. The lengths the authorities went to in smearing and crushing the harmless organised protests that fathers in similar situations put on, show what kind of state we live in. This book is also a wake up call to defenders of civil liberties, people with whom I normally do not have much sympathy. It turns out that even the alleged plot to kidnap Leo Blair was probably put about by the security services. Was the so called desecration at Stonehenge a matter for grave disquiet? Not really; it was an imaginative publicity stunt and did no damage to the monument. Until the family courts are brought out into the light of day and scrutinised properly, the grave miscarriages of justice described in this book will continue. It used to be said that an Englishman's home was his castle until his wife decided to take it away from him. To that can now be added that his children are his own until the lady decides to remove them with the backing of the courts and legal establishment.
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Shocking, gripping, essential
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Those, like me, who thought that British courts believe in dispensing justice need to read this book. It is a shocking story of an ordinary father and his daughters being forced apart by a selfish mother and the British legal system. As a separated man who has fortunately avoided the family court system I find it appalling and terrifying that other men in similar situations have their children taken away from them and their fight for justice brings them misery, poverty and in Harris's case, jail.
Thank you Mark Harris for writing this book. Thank you Lisa Harris for standing up for yourself and your sisters and your father. May all those involved in perpetrating these miscarriages of justice and ruining people's lives read this book and change their ways.
I'm off to join F4J. (I'll look ridiculous in tights.)
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An utter Human rights abuse.
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An excellent book that details the inner workings of a family court system that fails children and parents alike. Never before has any publication ever been allowed to say anything about family proceedings in such detail in a real case-but FAMILY COURT HELL does just that. One hundred and thirty three hearings and thirty three judges all failed to give these children their dad. Instead, these little girls had to take on the legal system for themselves. The detailed corruption of expert witneses, judges and CAFCASS staff, NAMED AND SHAMED makes this a must read book for anyone whose been to a family court.
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Worst case scenario
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If you're about to embark on a family court procedure involving your children, I would strongly advise NOT reading this book beforehand. I started reading this after 6 court appearances over a 10 month period of trying (successfully) to stop my child from being relocated overseas by ex and her new husband, and reading this beforehand would have destroyed my already fragile frame of mind at the time. It is such a stressful book, that I can only handle a couple of chapters at a time.
I think Mark Harris deserves respect for exposing some of the worst aspects of family courts. Whilst me and my child have been lucky, his experience makes the judicial system in this usually progressive and great country look like a sick joke, and I really hope that his effort will have gone some way in changing the norm where the family courts mostly seem to side with the interfering, deceiving parent who only pursues their own selfish interests.
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