01-06-2013 8:49 AM
Secret court jails father for sending son 21st birthday greeting on Facebook after he was gagged from naming himGarry Johnson breached gagging order stopping him publicly naming son46-year-old brought up his son and still lives with himJudge sent father to prison for contempt at a closed-doors family court
Case certain to fuel concerns about Britain’s network of secret courts
Controversial: Father Garry Johnson has been jailed at a secret court hearing for sending a Facebook message to his grown-up son on his 21st birthday. His sons Sam, then 9 and Adam, then 6, are pictured in 2001
A father has been jailed at a secret court hearing for sending a Facebook message to his grown-up son on his 21st birthday.
Garry Johnson, 46, breached a draconian gagging order which stops him publicly naming his son, Sam, whom he has brought up and who still lives with him.
In a case which is certain to fuel concerns about Britain’s shadowy network of secret courts, a judge sent the former music executive to prison for contempt at a closed-doors family court hearing in Essex at the beginning of last month.
He was not arrested by police or even represented by a lawyer.
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01-06-2013 8:50 AM
Everyone is allowed a lawyer..but not here..
01-06-2013 12:44 PM
The Family Courts are often a travesty of justice.
Parents are considered guilty and often have to fight against the acceptance by the court of reports by 'experts' who have not seen the parents and are compiled from opinions of social workers and others.
Many of those 'experts' no longer practice but make a lucrative living from commissioned reports and also if a report does not comply with social workers opinions, they just commissioned others until they get the one they want.
In another extraordinary case, after a woman was found by a psychologist to be a ‘competent mother’, the social workers are said to have insisted on commissioning a second expert’s report. It agreed with the first.
They then commissioned a third, which finally found that the mother had a ‘borderline personality disorder’. All three of her children were taken away for adoption.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121886/The-experts-break-families-The-terrifying-story-prospective-MP-branded-unfit-mother-experts-whod-met--nightmare-shared-families.html