Gagging Orders in Secret Family Courts

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Dear Mrs Docherty,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated the 13th of October
2009, below. In response to your enquiry I can confirm that East
Dunbartonshire Council has not taken any individual to court in order to
stop them 'speaking out' about Secret Family Courts or the Social Work
Service. Therefore the response to your questions is as follows.

(a) How many individuals have been taken to court by your authority in
order to gag them? To stop them from speaking out about the
injustices they have suffered at the hands of the council children's
social services and secret family courts. Provide all records to-date
that are held.
0 individuals.

(b) How much did these gagging order injunctions cost the rate payer?
N/A

(c) Who is responsible for actioning these enforcement orders by the
council, i.e. who signs the applications for court?
N/A

(d) How many parents /relatives/individuals have received further
sanctions for breaking these gagging orders?
N/A

(e) Are any of these decisions to gag/sanction taken by unelected local
authority officers responsible for children?s social care, finance,
legal or any other relevant department?
N/A

(f) If councillors make these decisions at which meeting(s) are these
discussed?
N/A

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Subject
Freedom of Information request -
Gagging Orders in Secret Family
Courts

Dear Sir or Madam,

In the wake of the people speaking out against the abuses of the
secret family courts and forced adoption of children to strangers,
instead of being retained within their real natural families. I
would like to know how your authority compares to others in
fulfilling your responsibilities to families & their children.

(a) How many individuals have been taken to court by your authority
in-order to gag them. To stop them from speaking out about the
injustices they have suffered at the hands of the council
children's social services and secret family courts. Provide all
records to-date that are held.

(b) How much did these gagging order injunctions cost the rate
payer.

(c) Who is responsible for actioning these enforcement orders by
the council, i.e. who signs the applications for court.

(d) How many parents /relatives/individuals have received further
sanctions for breaking these gagging orders.

(e) Are any of these decisions to gag/sanction taken by unelected
local authority officers responsible for children?s social care,
finance, legal or any other relevant department.

(f) If councillors make these decisions at which meeting(s) are
these discussed.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Docherty

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