Medical Experts in the Family Court: Where Two Worlds Collide
Gresham College Lectures
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Do We Start to Cut Corners to Get to a Fair Outcome?
Cases are taking longer and longer to be determined. The real issue is when do we start to cut corners? Do we do the best quality justice from the majority by cutting things down to the bone? Is that good enough? Or do we run the risk in those circumstances of ostensibly thinking that a simple case, for example, there may be a single fracture,. There may be nothing but the mother and the boyfriend in the house. It seems simple because she's not saying anything, he may have previous convictions. Think if that was reversed and the child had been removed in the absence of a fact finding hearing a place for adoption. Where does the truth and justice in that outcome lie? Yeah
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