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Yeah..Nusrat Ghani absolutely nailed the Madam Speaker look today.
She didn't come to play #Budget2026
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Such a "bright lad" will realise that stalking and almost killing a girl in bright daylight = slap on the wrist.
And what about the bright girl who almost died? All the other bright girls who are stalked and attacked? What conclusions will they draw?
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Thank you @NataliePage I am extremely grateful for your support
“There is a particular kind of English sentence that tells you something happened without telling you what.”
That’s how Suzanne Martin opens her latest piece after sitting through more than twenty hearings in a family court case. She is permitted to tell almost none of what she actually heard.
In “Permitted Words,” she shows how reporting restrictions force journalists into carefully limited language, the kind of bloodless, passive phrasing that can describe a father’s “BDSM and risk-taking sexual behaviour” while still protecting identities and the process. The result is that the public sees almost nothing of the evidence, the patterns of abuse, or the outcomes for children and mothers.
As others have noted, the people repeatedly silenced are the victim-survivors. The only consistent winners are the perpetrators.
If you care about transparency in family courts, this is essential reading:
Article:📰suzannemartinjournalist.subs…
📕Book: The System Is The Weapon
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Vulnerable families including victims of domestic abuse are unable to find adequate representation in the family courts because chronically low fees are driving barristers away from legal aid work, the chair of the @FamilyLawBar warns. Full interview 👉 tinyurl.com/2p76kyrb
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A child forced back into an abusive relationship by the family court learns that love is something you endure.
They will spend the rest of their life unlearning it.
The System Is The Weapon
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They called it the new Child Focused Courts. They said the pro-contact culture was finished.
Then the first appeal reached the Court of Appeal. The new President of the Family Division wrote it down: the new model has not changed the law.
A mother asked the court not to put her children into direct contact with an abusive father. The family court ordered contact anyway. She appealed to the highest court in the land. The Court of Appeal ruled that the contact order must be left in place. What they corrected was the barring order that treated her like him.
A new process. A Child Impact Report. Trauma-informed language. And at the end of it, he still gets the time, and you are still the one who has to make it look like a safe and healthy relationship - when it never will be.
They can change the name on the court list. If the destination is still contact, it is the same system. Business as usual.
📕Read my book The System Is The Weapon today
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ℹ️CASE SOURCE: Re C [2026] EWCA Civ 1216
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'Just like that I lost my girls': the mother who feels betrayed by the family courts after her girls were taken away 6 years ago and never returned. Expert evidence in her case was overturned last year by the high court yet her situation has not improved. tinyurl.com/332hn232
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We tried to deliver my book to @andyburnham yesterday, thinking maybe if he read what survivors of #DellasLaw had to endure, he'd close this dangerous loophole
Totally understand the need to protect the Prime Minister, but who's protecting our kids???
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Have you accessed specialist support as a survivor?
We want to hear about your experience
- what support was available, what helped, what didn't, and what you think could be different.
The Our Own Words survey is anonymous.
#CoerciveControl #DomesticAbuse
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🗣️ 'So many people have said to me, you have to look into the family courts.'
Sky's @Mollie_Malone1 explains how her investigation revealed failures in family courts and how women, particularly victims of abuse, feel 'shut out' of the system.
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⚖️ CASE LAW: ENGLAND AND WALES 🏴🏴
The court said an order would give a 15-year-old “emotional permission” to see his father, but he felt he was being forced.
Nine months of refusal later, the same judge discharged the contact order between the 15 year old boy and his father. Of course, the mother was ordered to uphold the order, which she couldn't with a teenager who voted with his feet. The father sought to punish her via enforcement applications.
But the order itself had become the problem, not the solution.
He said he’d be more likely to go if nobody forced him to do it. District Judge Anthony recognised this and made the right call, by discharging the contact order.
In my book, I reveal the machinery of forced relationships, and how that can be the damage in itself. You cannot court-order a relationship into existence. You cannot timetable love. All private human relationships should be based on consent.
📕 My book on how abusive fathers weaponise family courts against mothers and children: The System Is The Weapon
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⚖️🔗Link to judgment: [2026] EWFC 277 (B)
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Can someone explain to me how an @AirbnbHelp host would think it’s ok to send a legal threat for you submitting a 3*** review. 🤪🤯
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Family courts investigation👇 highlighting the case of Laura who fled UK after alleged rape & traumatic family court battles. She was extradited and is now in prison for child abduction,her son in care @voice4victims @JakeBenRichards @BarnettAdrienne @GoldsmithChambs @DrProudman
Replying to @RidgeandFrost
Watch the full report on the Sky News website and app ⬇️
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'I was manipulated and silenced': Inside the secret courts failing women news.sky.com/share/13590435
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For the last year I have been working with @SkyNews investigating the Family Court. With thanks to @Mollie_Malone and Valerie Hamill for seeing the importance of this investigation. @HWistrich @centreWJ @GoldsmithChambs @voice4victims @UNSRVAW
A Sky News investigation into failures in the family courts can reveal how a British woman was jailed after fleeing the country to escape alleged sexual and domestic abuse.
@Mollie_Malone1 | trib.al/L0yVzbs
How family courts are failing domestic abuse survivors
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🚨Sky News has gone inside the secret family courts.
A mother they call Laura says she was raped and abused. She disclosed it. There was a non-molestation order. The court process still turned on her.
She fled with her son. She was extradited. She is in prison for child abduction. He is in care.
From her cell: “I was targeted, manipulated, silenced, threatened by the system.”
She takes responsibility for breaking the order. That does not make the system innocent.
This is what happens when private law is allowed to run as a closed shop. Abuse becomes “allegations.” Protection becomes “alienation.” Flight becomes a crime. The child is placed with the state instead of the parent who tried to get him to safety.
The new President of the Family Division now says the culture has to change. I have been saying that since the files first started arriving. I've spoken to many mothers in this position.
Secrecy was supposed to protect children. It has instead protected the institution.
Protecting a child is not abduction. Treating it as such is how the system arms the abuser.
Read it. Watch it.
🔗 news.sky.com/story/i-was-man…
📕The System Is The Weapon - How Abusive Fathers Exploit Family Courts Against Mothers and Children
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A public artwork can be criticised without describing the black woman it depicts as “filth”. The language is deliberately dehumanising, misogynistic and racially charged. Coming from an MP, it is utterly disgraceful. What has happened to us that this is deemed acceptable?
dailymail.com/news/article-1… A coroner has ordered Surrey County Council to hand over 24,000+ documents relating to Sara Sharif’s siblings as part of the ongoing inquest into her murder. The coroner made clear it is not for the council to decide what gets disclosed.
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