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
Dear Mrs Docherty
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2009-608
I am writing to confirm that we received your information request on 13
October 2009. For your information and future communications your request
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Yours sincerely
Robin Yu
Information Protection Assistant
FOIA Team, Business Protection Unit
Information Systems Division (ISD)
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX
Tel: 020 7938 8226
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Dear Mrs Doherty,
Thank you for your request. I have made several enquiries throughout the
Council and it would help our searches if you could redefine or clarify
your request please?
We don't recognise your description of gagging order. It would help if you
could specify the legal names of the orders referred to so we could check
our records effectively. Could you also provide a timeframe from when you
would like the information for?
Please contact me if you require any assistance.
Yours sincerely
Robin
Robin Yu
Information Protection Assistant
FOIA Team, Business Protection Unit
Information Systems Division (ISD)
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX
Tel: 020 7938 8226
Web: [1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk
Dear Robin Yu,
To be read in conjunction with the FOIA.
Injunction - to stop people from speaking out and/or approaching the media
Please include all time frames that would not exclude this FOIA request as being classified as exempt due to costs.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Docherty
Dear Mrs Docherty
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST REF: 2009-608
I am responding to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
which we received on 13 October 2009 for information held by the Council.
You requested the following information:
(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 ratepayer.
(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.
None
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Yours sincerely
Robin Yu
Information Protection Assistant
FOIA Team, Business Protection Unit
Information Systems Division (ISD)
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX
Tel: 020 7938 8226
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Oxana Bondar left an annotation ()
Kensington and Chelsea Borough is notorious in respect to Child Protection over diagnose. Family and Children Social Services do still target single parents and other vulnerable public with the purpose of meeting adoption targets by terrorising families with constant monitoring, digging for evidence that their presence is necessary, often victimising those who dare complaining about unfair treatment and undue interventions, invasion of personal life of individuals. Kensington and Chelsea Children and Family Services cannot differentiate between real child abuse/neglect and normal life situations putting the livelihoods of children and their investigated parents under a huge amount of stress however justified but still cruel and in itself abusive.
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Petrona left an annotation ()
All people upon entering a *public* family court hearing are gagged by the Childrens' Act. This means they are prohibited by law to divulge the name/s of the children to anyone at all, not even to discuss with friends or family without threat of being sent to prison, and this does happen. Perhaps the FOIA Dept here is unaware of how the law works in this regard.