29 Mar 2017

Suella Fernandes MP Introduced A Private Members’ Bill To Radically Overhaul The UK Family Justice System

By Mike Buchanan, J4MB: Regarding this piece in The Times. You’ll need to register but it won’t cost anything, and you’ll get access to two pieces in either The Times or The Sunday Times every week. Paul writes:
Something fairly extraordinary happened in the Commons yesterday evening, which made me do a bit of a double take!
Namely a former barrister (Conservative) called Suella Fernandes [right] brought forward a private members’ bill to radically overhaul the family justice system and give a ‘rebuttal presumption’ of shared parenting for fathers.
She was supported by quite a few Tory backbenchers (Charlie Elfick, Col. Bob Stewart, Cheryl Gillan were among the backers) and it was  completely unopposed at first reading.
She also held it up as a contingency plan if Baroness Deech’s excellent divorce laws reforms fail to gain statute.

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