Black Country news and blogs Wednesday 30 October 2013
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley
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The wrong children taken into care
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 27 Oct 13
This story in the Sunday Times looks at the evidence that the numbers of deaths from child abuse and neglect are not going down and possibly going up.
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Jailing of Welsh Pensioners Revealed (Brian and Patricia Davies)
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 26 Oct 13
This is a story that resulted from a hearing in Court 45 at the RCJ (Royal Courts of Justice) yesterday.
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Secret Imprisonments and the RCJ press office
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 25 Oct 13
What we know (and was reported by PA) is that at a hearing which started at 9.30am in Court 35 in the RCJ Theis J committed a woman to jail.
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Court refuses to send children to slovakia
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 22 Oct 13
This is a judgment about a case that I know nothing more than what is in the published judgment.
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Today’s protest about the conditions of student finance
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 18 Oct 13
There was a protest today where students came as part of a “day of action” about student finance.
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Parliamentary Petition from Interpreter working in Family Courts
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 16 Oct 13
This is a link to a petition from a translator working in the family courts.
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English Refugees find refuge in Belgium with Belgian Family
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 15 Oct 13
The Family I have interviewed below are one of many families to have left the UK to avoid the forced adoption industry.
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Lodgers, Boarders, Non-Dependents and payments for Spare Rooms
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 14 Oct 13
The issues here are complex and I will try to explain them accurately (using the figures for 2013-14), but it is always worthwhile checking things out as to precise details.
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F v F [2013] EWHC 2683 (Fam) MMR Vaccination Case
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 13 Oct 13
This case is the one the fuss has been about over the weekend.
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A Belgian Social Worker’s View on the situation in England (in French)
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 8 Oct 13
Que se passe-t-il donc en Angleterre au niveau des services sociaux de
protection de l’enfance ? Par : stefan.
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Linden Homes Sod Cutting in Sheldon
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 8 Oct 13
There are a number of reasons why this is good for the area.
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Twenty Police sent to arrest baby
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 6 Oct 13
This video is a video of a mother and baby being taken away somewhere in Somerset.
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Demonstrator Banned from using Council Toilets
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 3 Oct 13
Here’s the letter…
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Serious Case Review on Keanu Williams
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 3 Oct 13
The serious case review on Keanu Williams was published earlier today.
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ISPs and content filtering databases
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 1 Oct 13
I wrote an article published in PC Pro which explained why the technical approach to content filtering is one which should cause concern.
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C (Children) Re: [2013] EWCA Civ 1158
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 27 Sep 13
Behind this judgment is a long history which causes me considerable concern.
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More state sponsored child stealing
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 26 Sep 13
The table below is part of the Statistical First Release.
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Energy Prices are a problem, but a retail price freeze risks blackouts
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 25 Sep 13
These are today’s figures for SSE.
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Slovak Investigation and the International Criminal Court
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 19 Sep 13
I spoke last Thursday about the investigation in the Slovak Republic into corruption in the courts in England.
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Labour did pilot and plan a Bedroom tax for social housing
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 15 Sep 13
In Hansard you can find this interchange.
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My speech from Thursday
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 15 Sep 13
The text is here.
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Lord Ashcroft on the Tory Party Bills Tabled by Peter Bone MP.
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 15 Sep 13
Lord Ashcroft has obtained opinion polls about the bills tabled by the tories to show what would happen were there to be an overall conservative majority.
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Interesting case for Grandparents
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 11 Sep 13
This is an interesting permission to appeal case for grandparents.
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Secret campaign launched against Lobbying Bill called Stopthegaggingbill.com
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 8 Sep 13
A secret campaign has been launched against the Lobbying Bill.
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Data Protection used to stop the truth being told
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 8 Sep 13
This post by Rico Sorda goes into some further details on how the power of the state is being used in Jersey to stop the truth being told.
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“As happens in Sicily from time to time”
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 7 Sep 13
To me what is interesting about This report by the BBC about the withdrawal of allegations about Labour Party activities in Falkirk is that the current MP Eric Joyce said: “As happens in Sicily from time to time a number of people seem to have …
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It looks like imprisonments have dropped by 90% since secrecy stopped (Another suspended committal)
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 6 Sep 13
This case was added to Bailii yesterday more than three months after the hearing.
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Accidents on the Coventry Road
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 4 Sep 13
I am worried about the continuing pedestrian accidents on the Coventry Road.
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Administrative court refuses extradition to USA
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 2 Sep 13
[2013] EWHC 2671 (Admin) is an interesting case where the Administrative Court has refused extradition on Article 8 grounds.
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Syria: Obama delay is good for international institutions
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 1 Sep 13
I am pleased that Obama has delayed the military action scheduled for around now.
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Ed Milliband on Syria: the danger of a political strategy where you expect to lose
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 30 Aug 13
In essence Ed Milliband’s position on Syria was essentially the same as the government’s.
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Syria: Labour’s Amendment (490 MPs were willing to consider military action potentially)
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 30 Aug 13
It is worth looking at Labour’s Amendment
expresses its revulsion at the killing of hundreds of civilians in Ghutah, Syria on 21 August 2013; believes that this was a moral outrage; recalls the importance of upholding the worldwide prohibition on the…
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Syria – so far
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 29 Aug 13
It is, of course, an unusual situation to have both the opposition amendment fall and the government motion fall.
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Adoptive parents gagged from talking anonymously to the media
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 24 Aug 13
This case is an interesting one that I know well.
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Local authorities cannot be trusted with the care of children
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 23 Aug 13
This story in The Times confirms that local authorities have a tendency to be complacent about the care of children in local authority care.
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The law and agents of the state
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 22 Aug 13
The issue of David Miranda has obtained quite a bit of public attention.
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What happens if a local council gives you planning permission by mistake?
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 21 Aug 13
This case is an interesting one on Bailii from Scotland.
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DHP Sandwell
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 16 Aug 13
The government have allocated Sandwell 740K and as at end July they have spent 133K and allocated 93K.
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Where are all the other contempt cases?
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 16 Aug 13
This is a judgment in accordance with the Practice Direction of 3rd May.
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Mother to be deported whilst her child is kept for adoption
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 16 Aug 13
This JR judgment (which I have anonymised) is about an American woman: She was living here and her child was taken into care.
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Mike Clarke’s Video Petition to the Queen
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 15 Aug 13
This is Mike Clarke’s video petition to the queen.
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Litigant in Person wins appeal against Bank of Scotland on Harrassment
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 15 Aug 13
This case which is Johnson v Bank of Scotland [2013] EWCA Civ 982 is an appeal in which a Mrs Johnson, as a litigant in person, won an appeal against the Bank of Scotland for harrassing her to pay a debt to the bank.
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IN THE MATTER OF M (A CHILD) [2013] EWCA Civ 1007 – Why is the baby in care?
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 15 Aug 13
This case on Bailii is an unusual thing to find on Bailii as it is a refusal of permission to appeal.
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Crimes against Humanity
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 13 Aug 13
The Rome Statute is interesting in that it defines crimes that are prosecutable on an extrajurisdictional basis.
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Experts must be Neutral (LASHIN v. RUSSIA)
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 8 Aug 13
This case which was in the European Court of Human Rights was recently pointed out to me.
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The “Bedroom Tax” DHP Dudley and Rehousing
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 7 Aug 13
I now have the figures for DHP in Dudley.
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Mike Clarke and his mother Ann (on the run in Spain)
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 7 Aug 13
Mike Clarke has been on the run in Spain for some time.
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Oaklands Park Master Plan (see map)
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 3 Aug 13
This is the current master plan for comments.
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Children Taken into care of all ages
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 2 Aug 13
I have been asked for figures as to the total number of children taken into care.
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Daniel Pelka – more of the wrong children are being taken into care
John Hemming MP: Lib Dem - Yardley 2 Aug 13
I have for some time been raising concerns that the wrong children are being taken into care.