Another demonstration was arranged outside a judge's house for 12 noon on Saturday 3 March 2001.
Here's are two reports about the satisfactory progress :
To everyone that came along today a big thank-you. It was a storming success.
The defining moment must have been when the judge's daughter came out to find what what going on. Starting from being rather alarmed, after some debate with us, I think she left even more worried about what Daddy et al had been up to in the family courts. The neighbour was classic, charging to rescue the damsel in distress, once he found out why we were there he was very sympathetic and admitted a friend of his had the same problems. All the while the reporters were taking notes and the cameras were clicking.
It was difficult to have too much sympathy with the judge's daughter, she could spare a thought for:
Let's hope the reporters from the Guardian and the Bucks Free Press get their story and pictures in the papers. Netty (my partner) got a surprise when she got home. Mark Harris had left a phone message in the morning, and when she phoned up Mark he was in a football match (unknown to her). With all the jeering and shouting she could hear she assumed it must still be the protest outside the judges house!
Thanks to all
Brian Robertson.
Thanks to Alan Carr for unearthing the following story:
http://www.msn.co.uk/exredir.asp?startid=2861&URL=http://www.sky.com/news/uk/story2.htm
A group of angry dads staged a protest outside a judge's house, claiming his rulings were damaging the rights of fathers. Twelve men shouted and waved placards outside the home of family court judge Christopher Tyrer in Buckinghamshire, saying the current divorce system is ruining father's relationships with their children. The men, all members of the Equal Parenting Council, claim the courts do not grant enough access to fathers, fail to enforce the orders that are in place and discriminate against men by awarding custody to mothers in 90 per cent of cases. Daughter upset The men paraded in front of the house carrying signs saying 'Tyrer or Tyrant?' and shouted that the judge "abuses the rights of children and fathers'. Unfortunately for the demonstrators, the judge was not at home, but his 17-year-old daughter, Rebecca, was visibly upset by the protests. She told the demonstrators: "It's nothing to do with me. I don't know what you're here for. My parents are away. Please go away and come back when he is here. I am on my own." But the men insisted they were targeting the 56-year-old High Court judge, who presides over family matters at Crown Courts such as Oxford and Aylesbury, because of what they see as his poor treatment of fathers in custody battles. The protesters had travelled from as far as Plymouth, Devon and Bristol for the siege. Families need fathers One father, a 49-year-old BT worker, said he had not seen his two sons since last October because his ex-partner refused to allow him contact. "There are human rights issues here as well as strictly family issues," he said. "The injunction contravenes my freedom of speech under the Convention of Human Rights." Another protester, Anson Allen, 58, from Bristol, said he had not seen his 15-year-old son for five years, since his wife left him. "Families need fathers," he said. "The courts are about 50 years behind the times. They think a child only needs a mother."