Gagging Orders in Secret Family Courts

Dear Mrs Docherty,

Thank you for your e - mail received on 14^th October 2009. The content of
your e mail forms a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and
as such Ceredigion County Council has a timeframe of 20 working days in
which to respond, which is on or before 10^th November 2009.

I will therefore be in touch shortly,

Kind Regards,

Gareth

Gareth W Hughes

Prif Swyddog Cwynion, Deddf Rhyddid Gwybodaeth a'r Ddeddf Diogelu Data

Principal Officer Complaints, Freedom of Information and Data Protection,

Adran Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol Ceredigion,

Ceredigion Social Services Department,

Minaeron,

Aberaeron.

SA46 ODY.

Dear Mrs Docherty,

Following your Freedom of Information request below I wish to confirm that
Ceredigion County Council have not applied for or obtained any "gagging "
orders or injunctions in relation to any child care cases before the
court. Therefore the answer to question one is none, and the remainder of
your questions is therefore none applicable.

In addition, proceedings for children are automatically private in the
sense that the court will not allow any information from the proceedings
to be disclosed unless for specific purposes to specific people or without
its express permission. Recent changes to practice allow press reporting
of cases subject the discretion of the Judge.

I hope that the information is satisfactory to you.

With Kind Regards,

Gareth

Gareth W Hughes

Prif Swyddog Cwynion, Deddf Rhyddid Gwybodaeth a'r Ddeddf Diogelu Data

Principal Officer Complaints, Freedom of Information and Data Protection,

Adran Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol Ceredigion,

Ceredigion Social Services Department,

Minaeron,

Aberaeron.

SA46 ODY.

Original Message-----

From: Mrs Docherty [mailto:[FOI #20835 email]]

Sent: 13 October 2009 19:27

To: FOI requests at Ceredigion Council

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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