About Family Court
Family court was originally created to be a court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, such as custody of children and could disregard certain legal requirements . . .
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... Bethan has never been inside a Family Court before, but she is here to try to protect her child - whose father has been convicted of paedophile offences and is currently in jail...
Japan's top court says trans surgery requirement is unconstitutional
... The Supreme Court verdict comes days after a local Family Court ruled in favour of a man who requested to have his gender legally changed without undergoing the surgery...
Cambridgeshire shootings: Man who shot father and son dead jailed for life
... Cambridge Crown Court heard the killings came two days after a Family Court hearing...
Jade Ward: Murdered woman's family pride over law change
... It means the burden will no longer be on family members to apply to the Family Court to ask for the parental rights of a killer to be removed...
Judge to decide on ending critically ill baby girl's life support
... The judge relaxed statutory restrictions covering private Family Court hearings and said Indi, her parents and the hospital involved could be named in media reports...
Sara Sharif: So badly injured mum 'did not recognise her' in mortuary
... Originally Sara and her older brother had lived with their mother, but in 2019 the Family Court said they should live with their father, though she still had equal rights...
Family courts: 'We kidnapped our kids from abusive dads and fled the UK'
...By Ed ThomasSpecial correspondentA growing number of women who say their children were handed to abusive partners by England and Wales Family Courts have abducted them and fled to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus...
Cambridgeshire shootings: Man who shot father and son dead jailed for life
By Phil ShepkaBBC News, Cambridgeshire
A man who shot a father and son dead, in what a judge described as an " execution" has been jailed For Life .
Stephen Alderton killed both Gary Dunmore, 57, and Josh Dunmore, 32, who died at separate properties in two Cambridgeshire villages in March.
Cambridge Crown Court heard the killings came Two Days after a Family Court hearing.
Jailing him for a minimum of 25 years, The Judge told Alderton, 67, he decided " to take The Law into your own hands".
Josh Dunmore, the former partner of Alderton's daughter, was found dead at his home in Bluntisham, while six Miles Away his father was found dead at his home in Sutton on 29 March.
Alderton was being sentenced after Pleading Guilty to the two murders.
Judge Mark Bishop said Alderton murdered The Men over his " distorted beliefs" about Family Court proceedings " following what was an interim and not final hearing on 27 March".
The Court heard Alderton, of no fixed address, had written in a telephone message Last Year : " I've a shortlist of people I intend to murder. "
Prosecutor Peter Gair said Alderton had a shotgun licence and lawfully held a Beretta shotgun which was used in both killings.
Police said The Father and son were shot about half an hour apart on The Night of 29 March.
Mr Gair said it was likely Alderton knocked on Josh Dunmore's door and shot him " twice at Close Range " when he opened it, before later shooting Gary Dunmore at Close Range , with three of four shots hitting him.
After Alderton was arrested on the M5 near Worcester hours later by armed officers, he told police that " sometimes you have to do what you have to do even if it's wrong in The Eyes of The Law ".
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