A significant number of men and fathers have attempted to address the malpractices against men in matrimonial and family law, which they have met in their cases, and which has resulted in serious damage to their lives.
In this page we shall highlight individual instances of problems to prove the case that matrimonial and family law is out of control.
Other information on this site about the situation The Cheltenham Group's book Marriage and Fatherhood : Important Information for Young Men gives the overview of the corruption. The comprehensive campaign undertaken by the Cheltenham Group, which required activities from 10 November 1997 until 11 June 1998, which placed the facts about the NAPO 'Anti-sexism' Policy in front of all the responsible authorities, but without any remedy whatever, is described in The NAPO ‘Anti-sexism’ Policy & Lack of Available Remedies.
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Individual attempts at remedies
Mr CW's case
Mr CW, a UKMM member, recently made a complaint to his Area Probation Committee about the behaviour of the Court Welfare Officer assigned to his case. No remedy was available from the Area Probation Committee, and so an approach was made to the Home Office, who, it is said, have responsibility for the Court Welfare Service, and who have produced national guidelines for the operation of the service. Again no remedy was available.
Mr CW then asked his MP, Gary Streeter to take the issue to the Parliamentary Ombudsman. The Ombudsman's response was obtained in a letter dated 23 July 1998. The Ombudsman stated :
... it appears to me that the HO have no statutory duty to investigate complaints about the probation service's court welfare work. In these circumstances, I see no evidence of HO maladministration in Mr W's case.
... HO ... have issued a booklet "National Standards for Probation Service Family Court Welfare Work" which sets a framework for the family court welfare work ... the standards are not statutory requirements however, rather they are levels of service for local probation committees to aspire to.
This implies that the Area Probation Committees are not controlled by anyone, either locally or nationally. They also have no framework which they are obliged to adhere to.
In short, they answer to no one about their activities and cannot to brought to book over their activities.
Mr OC's case
(to be completed at a later date)