Parents protesting in Trafford for open justice

Parents unite to protest about the corruption in the family courts Mum wins baby appeal court battle « Previous « Previous Next » Next » View Gallery ONE of the country’s leading judges has given a young mother with drink and drugs problems a chance to win back her baby. The Peterborough mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was on the brink of having her seven-month-old daughter taken away for adoption until Lord Justice Thorpe, who has a long background in family legal cases, stepped in at the Court of Appeal in London yesterday. He ordered Peterborough City Council to hold a two-day assessment of her parenting skills. This overturned a previous decision to allow the council to press ahead with a permanent care order. The panel of three judges felt this was not fair on the mother, who is in her 20s, after hearing that she had managed to break out of a stormy relationship with her partner and had been bonding with her child under supervision every day. It could be a vital round in the woman’s legal battle to become a real mother to her child, after she had been taken from her shortly after birth. The little girl, who also cannot be named, was removed by social workers because of her mother’s drug and alcohol abuse, as well as fears over the volatile relationship she had at the time with the child’s father, from whom she has now separated. At a hearing, due in the summer, the city council plans to seek a permanent care order, with a view to placing the little …