JUMP Responses to Government & Law Society Consultations

• • Government Green Paper on Parental Separation, July 2004
• • Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the UK Family Law System, January 2005
• • 2nd Edition of the Law Society’s Family Law Protocol, February 2005

• Draft Children (Contact) & Adoption Bill, February 2005

• Department for Education & Skills Parenting Plans Document Review, April 2005

• • House of Lords Review of the Children (Contact) & Adoption Bill, June - November 2005
• • CAFCASS 'Every Day Matters' Consultation Paper, October 2005 - January 2006

• • Department for Constitutional Affairs Consultation on Improving Transparency
•   & Privacy in Family Courts, July - October   2006
• • Government White Paper on A New System of Child Maintenance, December 2006
• • Centre for Social Justice Family Law Review, January 2008
  • Grandparents Rights Petition. A Response to the Government, March 2008
•    (Petition and response created by The Custody Minefield and supported by JUMP
•    and other UK parent and grandparents groups)
• • Children and Adoption Act 2006 - Court Rules, May 2008

    

JUMP Press Releases

July 2004
JUMP Attends Pioneering Conservative Party Family Access Summit in
Westminster

January 2005
Continuing Successes for JUMP: Constitutional Affairs Committee Reviewing UK Family Justice System Accepts Written Evidence from JUMP Chief Rabbi Also Supports JUMP Initiatives with Agreement to Submit Statement to Constitutional Affairs Committee

September 2005
JUMP Invited to House of Lords to Input into Children & Adoption Bill
Discussions

April 2006
JUMP Supports International Parental Alienation Awareness Day on 25 April 2006

December 2006

JUMP Launches Parenting Plans Booklet

JUMP Media Publications

Reproduced with kind permission from the Jewish Chronicle

Jumping to conclusions
Jewish Chronicle 21 June 2002

JUMP start to protest for fair access to children
Jewish Chronicle 25 June 2004

Howards Family Values
Jewish Chronicle 16 July 2004

Parenting rights call
Jewish Chronicle 21 January 2005

High level Jump role
Jewish Chronicle 30 September 2005

Children: Divorces real problem
Jewish Chronicle 29 December 2006

JUMP start on divorce

Jewish Chronicle 04 September 2008

 

Key Public Family Law Cases

04 February 2004

A & A (Wall Judgement) - Granting of shared residency order
www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/j2253/father&mother.htm

01 April 2004

F & M (Munby Judgement) - Father loses contact through failure of family law system

20 April 2004

V vs V (Bracewell Judgement) - Change of residence
Available on request

21 June 2005

M (Children) (Wall & Baker Court of Appeal) - Appeal allowed for mother to have contact with her estranged children reassessed in Court

14 December 2005

C v C (Sumner Judgement) - A child care case involving a discussion of the need for a section 37 order so that children could have a psychiatric assessment
Available on request

20 May 2008

A-H (Children) (Wall, Richard & Kennedy Court of Appeal) - Application for permission to appeal orders in an intractable contact dispute. Application refused but with recommendations for future representation of the children

National Media Publications

2008

The Times June 16

Family courts out of touch says judge

Mail Online June 5
Why more and more women are losing custody battles over their children

The Times June 3
Mum doesn't live with us any more

The Times May 1
Vengeful mothers leave good fathers powerless to see child, says judge

BBC Online April 5
Families in meltdown, judge says

2007

The Times December 18

Child support Bill

The Guardian December 10

Family justice policy does not work for children, report says

The Sunday Times October 7

Hidden heartache of the weekend mothers

Telegraph Magazine September 22
Torn Apart

The Times July 17
Family courts should be led out of the dark ages

The Times June 12
The Government must help children of divorcees

2006

Guardian Online August 27
Justice must be seen to be done in family courts

2005

BBC News February 14
The mothers who fight 4 justice

2004

The Times July 27
Separating parents: why not give them equal rights?

2003

The Guardian February 17

Judge warns on access to children

2002

The Guardian Tuesday October 1
Poisonous Parenting