Tomorrow I am going to meet up with a mother to see how her case is going.This lady will remain anon we will call her Jane her real name is …………….
I first met her round about March 2007 in Birmingham Council Chambers meeting with John Hemming & William Bache chairing a meeting with families Justice for Families.Since then I check in from time to time see who has had a positive result, hoping that they had,had their children returned. Mostly the women I know ,do not get a fair trial, or justice for their children in closed court.
Moving on now.
I am going to the chambers of my barrister there is a message I want to leave for her .Not sure what kind of reception I will get, after doing the knowledge . A bit like the taxi drivers around London; this is a must to survive the closed family courts.
Then, if I get time I will take a tube to Marylebone to check out the offices in Lisson Grove this where I was sent for a psych report ,to see an arrogant man called Dr Wilkins police forensic psychiatrist in 2004.
He has recently been given a warning from the GMC for writing reports for court ,without ever having met the person. This goes on a quiet a lot ,on the day he met my ex-partner, he said “he did not have time to read the reports”.
Unfortunately he took him at face value, even accepted he had no criminal record.
Fine , now where does that leave me?
Up shit creek without a paddle that is where it leaves me. So I will go and check out how he is doing after renting out rooms by the hour to interview clients for reports for court. Then I will research his speciality what field he is expert in ;will even check out his private practise in Windsor and ask the questions, where do most of his clients come from? I was quoted
Presents for a child who will have to wait for ever to get them .
Well the holiday time is over and it is now time to
come crawling out of the wood work. Christmas is not an easy time for some families torn apart by court orders never mind the recession we are in now . I do what I normally every year , simply have a quiet Christmas at home,as it is only 1 day ,and it will pass by as uneventful as any other day of the year.
Were once the house was filled with people & games, food & drink being shared with a few close friends & family. I would rather now be left alone in peace to get over the 5th Christmas living apart.
I have nearly always travelled abroad like most families just to avoid the stress of it all,once you have a suffered a loss of a close family member ,you just get kind of choosy who you want to be spending Christmas or holidays with.This is such an emotional time of year, also a heart breaking time of year, for some people.
I have been know in past years to fly out to Cyprus for New Year , with my youngest son ,just the two of us watching the sunset over Coral Bay there is nothing quite like it . My son was 7 years old ,as we watched the thunder come rolling in over Coral Bay 1 afternoon in the Queens Hotel .It was splendid,as we sat cuddled up, all cosy in our room which, looked out over Coral bay .
I return back to the same places we went the previous year on holiday , before C got leukaemia and a consultant got trigger happy with an EPO .This time I travel on my own.
I do like to think of happier memories when we had a normal family life . And who could blame me for this.
So if I win the lottery ,I will book up and fly out and get away from it all hopefully next year.I just have not felt up to travelling due to having surgery for a frozen shoulder.
They do say, we are now officially in a recession so god only knows what we are in for .We can not trust people to tell us the truth of it ,and we foolishly voted them in .
So just hold on to your good memories which will hopefully be enough to see you through, until we come through this recession.
