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Shlosberg v Avonwick Holdings Ltd [2016] EWHC 1001 (Ch): privilege and an injunction requiring solicitors to cease acting
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Liquidator's entitlement to accountant's files
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Hooper v Duncan Lewis (Solicitors) Ltd & Ors [2010] BPIR 591
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Green v Bramston & Ors [2010] EWHC 3106 (Ch) (02 December 2010)
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Green v Ireland [2011] EWHC 1305 (Ch) (20 May 2011)
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Fishing for creatures in ponds that you do not even know exist
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On Saturday, August 17th was our first North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA) Utility Test in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with the Midwest Tri-State NAVHDA Chapter. In the running were Sweetgrass Plainsman Samson "Sam" age 5 and Bourg-Royals CB Bluestem "BB" age 2 with my husband Charles handling both dogs. The Midwest Tri-State NAVHDA Chapter is one of the best in the country and folks come from all over to participate in their events.
The Natural Ability dogs were first in the field on the day, with Sam as the first Utility Dog who ran. His very first point was not on one of the planted chukars, but was a wild rooster pheasant! The gunner said that he was twitching to fire, but it isn't that time of year just yet! Sam did fairly well on his first three finds, but it just started to get out of control. The field was packed with birds and he was finding them every 45 seconds in some places. He just came apart. Sam has been hunting wild birds his whole life but has only received steadiness training in the past year, so he just couldn't handle the overwhelming number of birds. His pointing and retrieving never fail, but his habit of breaking on the shot came out in full force. He probably had 10 total finds, but only held on maybe 3 or 4 of them. Afterwards, Apprentice Judge Leo Boman told us that we need to go ahead and make a correction with the dog in the field, not letting him mess up over and over without trying to right it. This is different than AKC, where the dog is supposed to work without correction and commands or face an order from the judge to "pick up your dog" (meaning you failed). So that was a great tip for future handling.
Although it shows Charles carrying a shotgun, it is not loaded and only the two chapter gunners do all of the shooting for the test.
Charles was pretty disgusted as he walked out of the field with Sam, but I knew that was where the dog would make mistakes and his time to shine would come later on in the day. We had to shake it off quickly because we were running 2 out of the 3 utility dogs that day, so it was a short break until it was BB's turn.
BB has become an outstanding field dog and proved in this test that she is ready to move on to Master Hunter runs in AKC (American Kennel Club) Hunt Tests. She had 4 or 5 finds and every single one was textbook steadiness. There was even a point where Charles chose to run after a bird to try to flush it and BB just stood there stone still.
We walked out of the bird field with BB feeling as if we'd taken our first steps toward a Utility Prize I. We were very hopeful. It was time for a delicious lunch of chili and cornbread. You can't beat the food at NAVHDA tests!
The next order of business was the duck search for the utility dogs. Sam was up first and we had no worries about his performance. Swam the full 10 minutes and searched the pond thoroughly. He did not find the duck, but that isn't the point of the exercise.
BB's weak spot is the water. With Sam always dominating the retrieves while we are duck hunting, she just hasn't had a chance to get fired up about it. She did an okay search, then came and sat down by Charles at around the 7 minute mark.
Afterwards we talked to Dan Griffith, who is a full time trainer of German Wirehaired Pointers and a very experienced Utility Tester. We were wondering if Charles should have re-cast her out into the pond. Dan told us that if you re-cast without judge's instructions, it is automatically a one point deduction. If the judge wants you to re-cast, they will tell you. Do not re-cast on your own. Another great handling tip for the future.
The Natural Ability dogs did their duck retrieve first (which BB had no problem with at her test, NA Prize I with a perfect score of 112). The setup for the Utility dogs was that they walk on leash on heel through a set of posts to the blind. The dog is released from the leash and "whoaed" behind the blind. Shots are fired and the dog has to stay steady behind the blind. The dog is then moved just outside of the blind so that he can mark where the throw of the duck lands. More shots are fired and the duck is thrown.
Sam marks the throw. You can see the heeling posts in the foreground.
We were in no way prepared for the 50 yard duck retrieve that they set up for the Utility Dogs. The throw was way outside of shotgun range and it is only because of Sam's absolute love of swimming and water that he was able to pull it off. We had not trained for that distance at all.
At that point, we knew that it would take a miracle for BB to get that duck. She did great in the blind and I saw her mark the throw, but she got distracted by the decoys next to the shore and would only go about 20 yards out to search (within shotgun range). We tried to cast her farther, but to no avail. BB did not get the duck and received No Prize as a result.
BB does an amazing job of tracking and always goes from point A to point B flawlessly. But as she didn't get the duck, it was all for naught. So we ended the day with Sam earning a Utility Test Prize III. It was our first test and I was just happy to bring home a prize, especially on Sam who has just been a wild bird hunting dog for so long. BB was perfect in everything but the water. We will hunt her alone on wild ducks down in Missouri for early teal season in a few weeks and then Nebraska High Plains duck season a few weeks after that.
It was a great time in Sioux Falls and we learned so much from folks. It was great seeing Cliff Koele of Coppershot Griffons, home of several NAVHDA Versatile Champions, who recently announced his retirement from testing and breeding. He will now focus on fishing and mentoring other breeders/trainers. We had so much fun with all of our fellow handlers, the volunteers and the judges. We learned and laughed. It's just dogs after all.
Congratulations to our fellow griffoniers who also participated in the weekend from Aux Lake Kennel! From left to right: Keith Feldhaus and Deke UT I, Scott Moore and Josie as observers, Rick Jones and Jessie NA II and the godfather himself: Larry Woodward and Holly UT I. Thank you Kim Jones for allowing me to use your photo. We had a chance to spend time with the Joneses since Jessie ran on Saturday, but only saw everyone else briefly as we were ships passing in the night. Their UT dogs ran on Sunday.
Wow and a big thank you to the Midwest Tri-State NAVHDA Chapter for a great test. We will be back.
I have so much more to write about, but am just out of time for today. I will be sure to post again later this week before hunting season starts on Saturday!! I have some pupdates that I need to clear out of my queue before I get way behind! Talk at you later this week.


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Combined jewelry sales for Christie's and Sotheby's totaled $906.3 million for 2018, with Christie's achieving $492.3 million and Sotheby's at $414 million.
This total represents a 17.6% decline in jewelry sales compared with the $1.1 billion the two international auction houses achieved in 2017. Individually, Christie's sales fell 11.5% while Sotheby's dropped 25%. No reason was given by either auction house for the year-over-year decline in their 2018 statements. Both auction houses hold their most important jewelry sales in Geneva, New York, Hong Kong and London.
The year was defined by high prices for fancy colored diamonds, white diamonds, statement colored gems (particularly Burmese rubies, Kashmir sapphires and Colombian emeralds) and private collection sales that included jewels from royal families. This is very much in keeping with trends of recent years. However, collectors and dealers have become more selective than in the past. They are willing to shell out big bucks for something special while passing on pieces that previously would have attracted spirited bidding. This was particularly true in Asia where auction results for the year were mixed.
* "The Peacock Necklace," a Kashmir sapphire and diamond necklace of 109.08 carats that sold for nearly $15 million at Christie's Hong Kong in November, setting a world record for a Kashmir sapphire necklace.
Sotheby's shined this year in its offering of private collections, led by the personal jewels of Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France. The star lot was a natural pearl attached to a diamond pendant that sold for more than $36.1 million, totally smashing its $2 million high estimate. It was the second highest price achieved for a jewel at auction in 2018 and it set a new auction record for a natural pearl.
Marie Antoinette's personal jewels were part of a sale of 100 royal jewels from the Bourbon-Parma family, whose royal pedigree extends from the reign of Louis XVI to the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The November auction by Sotheby's Geneva set a new record for any sale of royal jewels, fetching $53.1 million, more than seven times the high estimate of $7 million. All lots sold with 90% of them selling above high estimates.
Another royal gem that created headlines was the "Farnese Blue," a 6.16-carat pear-shaped blue diamond from the influential Farnese family that sold for more than $6.7 million, well above its $5.2 million high estimate. It was given to Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, as a wedding present in 1715 and subsequently passed down through four of the most important royal families in Europe (including the Bourbon-Parma family). It appeared on the market for the first time after three centuries.
The Sotheby's New York sale of Barbara Sinatra's personal jewelry (the fourth wife of Frank Sinatra) realized $4.7 million in December, with 100% of lots sold. The top lot was a 20.60-carat emerald-cut diamond engagement ring that sold for more than $1.6 million. In the same sale, jewels from the collection of Happy Rockefeller totaled $901,250, with 100% of lots sold.
Auctions held exclusively online are becoming a very important part of the jewelry business for Christie's and Sotheby's. At Christie's it accounted for $7.8 million of its total sales for 2018, a 12% decline from 2017. Sotheby's didn't break out its online only auction sales figures. However, Sotheby's did report that 42% of the bids in its jewelry sales were placed online in 2018 and the number of jewels sold online was up by 53%, year-over-year.
In October, Sotheby's held its first jewelry auction in Paris, taking in $5.2 million, well above its $4.2 high estimate.


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using Lemonade.Data.Entities;

namespace Lemonade.Data.Commands
{
    public interface IUpdateApplication
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What dragon is 42 hours?
Which "easy" dragons are you missing?
Evolving dragons to lvl 4 in order to trade.
28hr time with Eagle egg?
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How much gold would you pay to have halved breeding times?
Boosted Breeding. Is it a feature for all players or is it random?
What is the max habitats you can have?
Why is the passion dragon still in the market?
Can you usen diamondxcrusader to get infinity dragon?
Bug : why my white meadow don't appear?
How to get the Diamond Dragon and Super Dragon?
BEWARE in the new update!!
Why can't I breed with passion dragon?
Whats the point or goal of this game?
28hr breeding, can't find which egg?!
where did my dragons go?
Suggestion: Add a dragon trade.
Couldn't find a thread about this, so I'm staring one!!
Daily Bonus- how is it calculated?
Can you breed treasure dragon?
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Treasure dragon gold count towards gold limit?
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The Tony Awards 2016
I had an odd, continuing problem with my cable TV last night, so rather than do what I usually do with awards shows -- which is record them and then fast-forward through -- I had to watch the entire Tony Awards online, no fast-forwarding. So, unlike usually, I have a full perspective of the broadcast.
I thought it was fine. Nothing great, but they're doing a better job than in years past making it an entertainment rather than focusing on obscure awards with unknown nominees, and widening the musical performances, though there's still a lot more they could do in that department.
The opening number was entertaining, with James Corden doing a lot of quick-changes and moving between a lot of different Broadway shows. It wasn't at the level of the best of the openings that Neil Patrick Harris has done in recent years (most especially, "Bigger," which will be hard for anyone to top), but held its own with other good ones.
Corden didn't have a lot of great material to perform through the show, but did a solid job, a little too breathless at times, though that's part of his charm. I'm not quite sure what the sartorial point was with his ever-changing odd jackets, but I don't pay much attention to that so it didn't bother me one way or the other. I did like the brief snippets of songs from classic shows that current casts briefly sang outside the theater ("brief" being the operative word.) Given that the broadcast ran 15 minutes long, though, I'm surprised they didn't cut the "Carpool Karaoke" featurette, given that it had already aired on his TV show, and so it was just a repeat, available to anyone on YouTube. And the chat with his parents in the audience wasn't needed -- especially since it cut into time about one of my two big quibbles.
And that first quibble is that they gave Sheldon Harnick's Lifetime Achievement Award about seven seconds. I'm not exaggerating. They showed a clip of Harnick receiving his award earlier -- they didn't have the whole thing on the live show -- making a quip, along the lines of "I hope I deserve this, otherwise my being here would be really embarrassing." And that's it. James Corden spent a minute joking with his parents in the audience.
I'm biased, of course, as readers of these pages know, since I'm friend with Sheldon Harnick. But I don't hink my bias is out of line. Sheldon Harnick, after all, is the 92-year-old, legendary lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me (both nominated this year for Best Revival of a Musical), as well as the Tony and Pultizer Prize-winning Fiorello!, along with The Apple Tree (that got revived two years ago) and The Rothschilds, all written with his partner, composer Jerry Bock. And I think that deserves more than seven seconds. He's a true legend of Broadway. And more than for most awards shows, I suspect that viewers of the Tonys are especially interested in and knowledgeable about the history of the subject matter. And as such would have loved to have Sheldon Harnick -- let alone a sharp, witty Sheldon Harnick. A man so legendary that the street in front of the theater where Fiddler on the Roof is now playing was just renamed "Harnick and Bock Way." And he got seven seconds. Ridiculous.
The other quibble is the same as always, but worse this year. And that's the inability of the Tony broadcast to figure out how to present material from the nominated stage plays. They figured it out in the past, often having actors recreating parts of scenes, and even in recent years when they cut back on this, they still were able to show short video clips from plays. This year, they only had silent clips in the background as as presenter spoke about them. Equally ridiculous. And if the TV producers think that home-audiences would be lost by watching only a brief clip from a play...consider that that would be almost no different than when an actor goes on a TV talk show and brings a 30-second film clip from one of their movies.
I can't do anything about the seven seconds of Sheldon Harnick, or the lack of plays. But what I can do is post a very nice five-minute segment done on the PBS Newshour over the weekend about Harnick and Fiddler on the Roof.
As you'll see, Sheldon Harnick at 92 is sharp, thoughtful, self-effacing, witty and charming in the featurette, something that I have a feeling the viewing audience would have loved to have seen. They didn't have a chance. Happily, you here do.
Douglass Abramson
As a viewer, what irks me about the time constraint issue is that it was solved once upon a time, if imperfectly. I always thought that having the first hour, which they still do before the broadcast, on PBS gave most of the show breathing room and almost everything made it on TV. Moving on... I enjoyed Corbin. Much more than his version of The Late, Late Show. I know his ratings are good and his You Tube bits are going viral, but I think his show would be much better if at least some of the Tonys production team took over Corbin;s show. I also don't understand why The Tony's are the only major awards show to air on tape delay on the West Coast. Going live didn't hurt The Oscars or Emmys, what dot they have to loose going live with the Tonys? I think that most of us who watch it out here tend to time shift it to one degree or another anyway.
Robert Elisberg
Indeed, every year I am reminded of the wonderful solution when PBS aired the "early awards." I fully agree it's a shame that that stopped.

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Q: Jquery tablesorter customize option for sorting I am using jquery tablesorter. Table sorter having default order like number, special character and alphabets.
I need to sort like special character first, number and alphabets.
Check this URL on 3rd column (animal)
jsfiddle.net/Mottie/abkNM/325/

Any help on this ?

A: The default natural sort breaks up the content into blocks for comparison, but these blocks are set by "chunks" of text characters and numbers. When a non-text/numeric character is encountered it doesn't get broken apart.
So, in your demo the values "#Elephant" and "0Zebra" the sort breaks these values as follows:
#Elephant => [ '#Elephant' ]
0Zebra    => [ '0', 'Zebra' ]

when the comparison is done it sees "#Elephant" is non-numeric, but "0" is numeric, so based on ascii comparison, non-numerics (alphabetical characters are assumed) values are greater than numerical values; and thus "#Elephant" gets sorted after "0Zebra".
I know you didn't ask for an explanation, but the easiest way to get around this is to change the sorter. Use the simple text sorter instead (demo):
$('table').tablesorter({
    textSorter: {
        2: $.tablesorter.sortText
    }
});

Update: If you want specific sorting, you'll need to re-order the ascii value. I set up this demo which is specific to the data, it only changes the first character.
var reorderAscii = function(x){
    if (x === '') { return x; }
    var v = x.charCodeAt(0),
        z = x.charCodeAt(0);
    if ( z > 90 && z < 97) {
        // move [\]^_` to replace ABCDEF
        v = v - 26;
    } else if (z > 122 && z < 127) {
        // move {|}~ to replace GHIJ
        v = v - 52;
    } else if (z > 47 && z < 58) {
        // move 0123456789 to replace KLMNOPQRST
        v = v + 27;
    }
    return z !== v ? String.fromCharCode(v) + x.slice(1) : x;
};

$('table').tablesorter({
    theme: 'jui',
    headerTemplate: '{content}{icon}',
    // ignoreCase must = true
    ignoreCase: true,
    textExtraction: function(node, table, cellIndex){
        var t = $.trim( $(node).text().toLowerCase() );
        return cellIndex === 2 ? reorderAscii(t) : t;
    },
    textSorter: function (a, b) {
        if (a == b) { return 0; }
        if (a == '') { return 1; }
        if (b == '') { return -1; }
        return a > b ? 1 : -1;
    },
    widgets: ['uitheme', 'zebra', 'columns'],
    widgetOptions: {
        zebra: [
            "ui-widget-content even",
            "ui-state-default odd"]
    }
});

I forgot to mention that using any other sorter beside the alphanumeric sorter, the empty cell and string cell sorting are ignored. I need to include that in the documentation.

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SoundBow from binaura on Vimeo.
Binura bring their beautiful SoundBow app to iOS at last. It is a gorgeous instrument with huge possibilities for expression and creativity.
I think that in many ways these are the kinds of apps that iOS was made for.
"SoundBow is a drawing based music instrument with a clean and simple visual interface.
Create music by drawing curves over the screen. Your gesture will be remembered and played back continuously. Each time your ever-looping gesture hits a string, a sound is produced. Apart from drawing, you can experiment by moving the strings around freely to rescale your instrument. Record any sound through the microphone and start creating melodies, soundscapes with your own voice. If you wish, you can also export your composition as an audio file.
It's also worth checking out their site too.
But apart from this being a really lovely interface that just cries out to be played it says a lot about PureData too. Pd is getting more and more useful, not just for people who want to make apps, but in apps for mobile and desktop.
If you can do this with Pd then the sky's the limit really.
SoundBow is on the app store and costs just $2, which is nothing really, so you should go and buy it now.
Added "Internal recorder" for recording the main output.
Video published by Theodor Tonwerfer.


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Government Ignores Freedom Of Information Request On Its Child Protection Consultations
Posted by Natasha in FOI, Researching Reform
The government has failed to respond to a Freedom Of Information Request we made last month which asked them what had happened to all of its child welfare consultations.
We sent our request on 15th October. The reply was due on or before the 10th November. Unusually, we never received a notification from the FOI website alerting us to the delay.
The government's failure to respond in time means that they have broken the law. Researching Reform has now launched a review to find out why the request has been ignored.
We'll update this story as soon as we know more.
Forced Adoption – Question It!
Posted by Natasha in forced adoption, Question It, Researching Reform
Welcome to another week.
A petition calling on the government to investigate forced adoption and fostering in the UK, created by David Alexander has gained momentum after the media broke a story about the death of a toddler at the hands of her adoptive father.
Elsie, whose real name is Shayla, was killed by her adoptive father after the local authority placed her in his care. Shayla's grandmother has also signed the petition.
The petition has gathered over 4,000 signatures and calls on the government to carry out an independent review of both forced adoption and fostering. The petition calls these practices a form of child abuse, and suggests they are tantamount to child abduction. It also highlights the 'risk of future/ significant harm' test under S.31 of the Children Act 1989, which allows social workers to remove children on the basis that harm to a child could take place in the future, often with very little evidence to support the view. The petition also calls out the lack of transparency in the process.
Forced adoption is a controversial practice which allows government agencies to remove children from parents without their consent, if they believe the child in question is at risk of harm. The UK is part of a small number of countries which engages in forced adoption, and sits at the far end of the practice, employing what are viewed as extreme policies in this area. World wide, forced adoption has seen a sharp decline, with fewer and fewer countries including it as part of their child protection policies.
Fostering, though seemingly less controversial, raises similar questions about the benefits of removing children from vulnerable parents and the effects of separation on both the children and their biological families.
Those in favour of forced adoption and fostering take the view that it is better for children in the long term to be placed with families who can offer them a childhood free from the difficulties that can arise when living with vulnerable parents.
Those against, believe that children are always better off with their biological parents and that the government should offer families any kind of support needed as of right, in order to keep children and parents together.
Our question to you this week, then, is just this: do you think forced adoption and fostering practices should be banned in the UK?
If you'd like to know more about forced adoption, from the legality of the practice, to developments surrounding the policy, you can access articles on the subject by clicking on our Forced Adoption link in the categories section.
The Adoption – A New Series On Radio 4
Posted by Natasha in Adoption, Researching Reform
A new podcast series published in October on BBC Radio 4 called The Adoption, follows a real life adoption and asks some insightful questions about the process.
The series took 19 months to make, and charts the lives of two toddlers, Bethany and Ben, as they find themselves being adopted.
There are currently 16 episodes, with each one looking at a different aspect of adoption. We've broken down each episode according to its theme:
Preview: Background information on the documentary.
Episode 1: The family court process and a look at who makes the decision for a child to be adopted.
Episode 2: The foster care portion of the process with thoughts from the foster mother.
Episode 3: An introduction to the children themselves and some input from their social worker.
Episode 4: How the biological grandparents fit into the adoption process.
Episode 5: Insight into how Bethany and Ben's father is coping with the adoption.
Episode 6: A look at how the mother is processing news of the adoption, which also raises the question of wrongful removal.
Episode 7: How potential adopters view the process and what they've done to prepare for the children coming to stay.
Episode 8: The potential adopters attend an Information Day and learn more about the children, to see if Bethany and Ben are 'right for them.' (We object strongly to this notion, so we're putting it on record here).
Episode 9: What happens when the birth family find out prospective adopters have been found Bethany and Ben.
Episode 10: Issues around telling the children they are being adopted.
Episode 11: How the Adoption Panel works, what it does and how it comes to its conclusions about adoptive parents.
Episode 12: The parents say goodbye to the children.
Episode 13: Bethany and Ben's father reflects on what's happened.
Episode 14: The children move in with the new family.
Episode 15: Ben and Bethany meet their 'new' mother and father.
We have not yet had the chance to listen, but we would love to hear your thoughts on the series. Was it sensitively produced? Have the team managed to get some nuance in to the series and have they highlighted potential problems with the process? Let us know.
Very many thanks to Rose Watson for sharing this on Facebook and Janie Doe for alerting us to the series.
The Hidden Agenda Behind Westminster's Debate On Family Justice Reform
Posted by Natasha in event, Family Law, Researching Reform
A debate in Westminster looking at family justice reform is to take place on Wednesday 15th November, but its underlying agenda is likely to disappoint serious reformers and raise eyebrows, too.
Whilst very little information has been offered about this debate – we still don't know who organised or sponsored it, what the full list of topics will be and who will be attending – there are some clues on the event's page over at the Parliament website. We have also received information from a Families Needs Fathers Cymru representative which sheds further light on the real agenda behind the debate.
The politician hosting the event is Suella Fernandes MP, who is the Conservative MP for Fareham. A former member of the Education Committee, she now sits on the Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee, which looks at ways in which education can boost the economy.
Suella was also on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee). The Bill, which was ratified in 2016, came to be known as The Snooper's Charter, for its invasive surveillance powers.
Suella's voting record is interesting too.
She has consistently voted against laws to promote and protect people's human rights, and any investigation into the Iraq war.
Relevant to the debate itself, she is an outspoken advocate for a presumption of shared parenting, and campaigns on Fathers' Rights issues. Her work is supported by Families Need Fathers, though it's not clear whether she feels the same way about the Fathers' Rights organisation.
Suella appears to have become vocal about Fathers' Rights around March of this year, writing for news outlets like The Times, and sponsoring the Family Justice Bill in that same month. The Bill's aim was to make Child Arrangement Orders enforceable and to establish a presumption of shared parenting in law. It was ultimately set aside during the general election, but Suella never made any attempt to revive it after the Conservatives won.
She also used the Ten Minute Rule to introduce the Bill. As politicians and researchers will tell you, this makes the Bill nothing more than a soundbite, and is not considered a serious attempt at passing a law. We wonder whether Suella was upfront about this tactic, whilst appealing to angry and often desperate fathers willing to champion anyone showing an interest in their cause. Even if that someone might be an opportunist looking to bag a share of the votes.
It's a sentiment not lost on some Families Need Fathers campaigners. One FNF post which featured another one of Suella's soundbites, this time from her newspaper article on Fathers Rights, hosts a series of comments from FNF supporters. One comment, from Jo Woodage, reads:
Suella never acknowledged the post or offered a response.
Coming back to the debate itself, a briefing paper is going to be made available at some point, though no time frame is given for its publication. The page does explain that if you'd like to be alerted when the briefing paper is published, you can email the team to request a notification.
As for the topics that are going to be discussed, five potential themes are listed as tags right at the bottom of the page. They are: Civil partnerships, Cohabitation, Divorce, Family law, Marriage. There are Briefings Papers listed too, which focus on contact and residence, no fault divorce, prenuptial agreements and cohabitation.
FNF Cymru seem to have much more detailed information on what the debate will actually focus on, lending fuel to the fire that Families Need Fathers have had a large hand in this event. The FNF Cymru page's update suggests that the following topics will be discussed:
· The need for a presumption of shared parenting
· The enforcement of child arrangement orders
· No-fault divorce
· The enforceability of prenuptial agreements
· Rights of cohabiting couples
· Opening up family courts
And at the bottom of the post, we are told: "We [FNF Cymru] have provided quite a lot of input to Suella on this. Please encourage your MP to attend."
The debate coincides with a report released recently by the Nuffield Foundation which invites the government to consider no fault divorce, as well as a report entitled A Manifesto To Strengthen Families, which was produced by the Conservatives. The recommendations in the manifesto are typical of what you might expect from the party. They focus on ways to bolster conventional marriage through financial incentives as a way to lessen economic burdens on the state, which Tories believe are brought on by a rising trend in cohabitation.
If the debate is heavily populated by Conservative MPs, it's bound to be nothing more than an effort at ensuring policy around couples focuses on boosting conventional marriage. This could potentially turn the clock back fifty years, in much the same way that Brexit and the government's other disastrous policies have done. That the Conservatives, and Suella, may have used the Fathers Rights movement to prop up their debate is something FNF campaigners will have to decide for themselves.
As a Westminster Hall Debate the event will take place in the Grand Committee Room, one of the rooms Researching Reform uses for its Westminster Debates and so the debate should be open to the public.
It will be interesting to see who will be speaking at this event, and what the briefing paper has to offer, too.
We'll keep you posted.
A very big thank you to DadsHouse for alerting us to this debate, and to Paul Apreda for kindly sharing information about Families Need Fathers' support for this event.
Is The Council Who Placed Toddler Elsie Liable For Her Murder?
Posted by Natasha in child abuse, Researching Reform, social work
The terrible story of Elsie, a toddler killed by her adoptive father, has understandably caused outrage, but a deeper issue lies at the heart of this distressing case which suggests that the council who placed her could be to blame for her death.
Matthew Scully-Hicks, Elsie's adoptive father, was jailed for life this week with a minimum term of 18 years for murdering the 18-month-old toddler.
Elsie's biological family fought to take care of Elsie before she was eventually adopted. Her birth grandmother, Sian O'Brien, launched proceedings in the family court to become her legal guardian when she was two months old, but was turned down because social services said she would not be able to cope. Ms O'Brien was already looking after Elsie's two teenage siblings, and felt that it would be best for the children if they were all together.
There is no indication from any media reports that social services considered offering Ms O'Brien help so that the children could be together, despite this being a required consideration before taking the frowned upon step of separating siblings.
And yet, despite the adoption, the family had hoped that Elsie would be returned to their care. They were not informed of her death until four months after she had been murdered.
Elsie's grandmother, speaking about the case:
"A person who had been deemed by the authorities to be a fit and proper person to bring up my granddaughter was responsible for her death, and they took her from me telling me I would be unable to cope."
Scully-Hicks will now be sent to prison for the fatal injuries he inflicted and an independent review will examine the circumstances of Elsie's death and whether social workers and doctors could have prevented it, but another more pressing question is being ignored. Is the local authority who placed Elsie with her adoptive parents also responsible for her death?
A recent landmark ruling suggests it may be.
In October of this year, the Supreme Court made history by confirming that local authorities were vicariously liable for children suffering abuse at the hands of their foster parents. Whilst the ruling distanced itself from connecting the local authority's pivotal role in recruiting, selecting and training the foster parents to any duty of care, the judgment makes it clear that councils who "provide[d] care to [a] child as an integral part of the local authority's organisation of its child care services," are liable for any harm suffered at the hands of 'parents' they select to care for that child.
Though foster parents and adoptive parents are in some ways distinctly different – mostly in relation to the duration of time they care for a child – there are several, important similarities which build a strong case for local authority liability in cases likes these.
Whilst some adoption agencies run independently of local authorities, most are part of the local authorities' children's services. What this means in practice is that those agencies who are not independent, are effectively part of a local authority.
And just like fostering agencies, adoption agencies are also tasked with preparing and supporting prospective adopters. It is their duty, then, to make sure whoever they select and train to adopt a child is competent to do so.
This post is primarily concerned with local authority run adoption agencies, because we are assuming for now that it was a council that placed Elsie, but that's not to say voluntary agencies should not be potentially liable for child injuries or deaths arising from their placements.
If we were the O'Brien family's legal team, not only would we think about pursuing a claim against the local authority, both for Elsie's death and the added trauma they may have suffered by not being told of her death until months after she passed away, but we would also seek to set a new precedent which matches the recent ruling handed down by the Supreme Court.
Whether a foster carer or adoptive parent, the roles are the same. And so too, must be the rules protecting children who experience either.
Credit:PA
19 Days – Activate Your Social Media Accounts…
Posted by Natasha in child abuse, child welfare, Researching Reform
Together with The Global Partnership To End Violence Against Children, The Women's World Summit Foundation have launched an excellent campaign to tackle child abuse, which began on 1st November and ends on 19th November, which marks the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse. The main theme of this year's campaign is 'Ending Harmful Traditional Practices."
The campaign by WWSF is called 19 Days because of the number of days it spans, and invites everyone to get involved during that time. Play with beautifully designed banners, ribbons, badges and buttons to spruce up your websites and social media accounts whilst helping to raise awareness around the terrible abuses children continue to suffer. You can even organise events and share them with WWSF just by registering on their website.
Everything you need is in WWSF's Prevention Kit. As you can see, each day is devoted to a different issue within child abuse, so you can highlight statistics, stories and developments in tackling these areas, too.
You can learn more about the campaign here.
For Twitter goers, the hashtag is #19Days.
'More Troubling Than Savile' – Care Home That Let Staff Drug And Rape Its Children.
Posted by Natasha in child abuse, Researching Reform, social services, social work
A professor and NHS Trust Chair who oversaw the Jimmy Savile inquiry has told the media that an investigation into a care home in Gravesend was "the most troubling thing she has ever worked on."
Dr Sue Proctor was brought in to review child abuse allegations of former care home residents at Kendall House. The care home was run by the Church of England.
Now, a former member of staff has come forward.
His testimony not only vindicates the women who as young girls were routinely raped, and drugged with powerful chemicals in quantities only safe for large animals like horses, but confirms the extent of the horror.
On his first day, the staff member, who has asked to go by the name Mr Simpson, was told by a coworker, "I would ask to leave here. What goes on here isn't right." He also describes a female manager who ran the care home like a military camp and frightened both the staff and the children.
What the staff member saw has left him with memories, he says, that make him feel sick. He says that whilst the children at Kendall House were no more unruly than ordinary teenagers, they were treated appallingly. He explains that the girls were given drugs at every meal, kept in a cell for 24 hours for trying to run away, or straitjackets, given electric shock treatment, and routinely raped.
The member of staff says he wrote a letter to the Guardian, took his concerns to the National Council for Civil Liberties and was made aware that the police had received allegations too, but no one did anything.
The article tells us that:
"Mr Simpson still has the notes he took secretly of drugs administered to girls, listed under "breakfast, tea and supper" and some poured into cups of tea.
He noted oxytetrin, a veterinary product used to treat infections, thioridazine, used to treat schizophrenia and psychosis, and dalmane, which is for insomnia."
The priest overseeing the home, who was also Director of Social Services for Kent, and considered himself to be a social activist and had written books about child welfare, was never reported to the police. Rev Nicolas Stacey went on record saying that youngsters in care could be "incredibly manipulative" and would make things up. He was widely considered to be a pioneer of social services at the time. Stacey died in May of this year.
It's wonderful to see another whistleblower coming out and giving his testimony, even if it's a little later than expected.
When Researching Reform first started working in the child welfare sector ten years ago, we had the enormous privilege of assisting Teresa Cooper, a former care leaver from Kendall House who first exposed the scandal, over fifteen years ago. The Church tried to shut her down, organisations ignored the evidence she had collected over a period spanning 30 years and politicians wouldn't touch the story. But she never stopped campaigning.
It is thanks to Teresa that the abuse she and other girls suffered at Kendall House has become mainstream knowledge. If you'd like to learn more about Teresa and Kendall House, her blog No2Abuse is the definitive resource on the subject.
You can read the Church of England's report here.
And if you'd like to know more about the scientific experiments these girls endured, from the chemical cosh to electric shock therapy, and the abuse both sexual and emotional they lived through – though many have since committed suicide thanks to their ordeal – we highly recommend Teresa's book 'Pin Down'.
Many thanks to Teresa for sharing this update with us. You can follow Teresa on Twitter @TeresaCooper.
Reverend Stacey: Children in care could be "incredibly manipulative."
Question It!
Posted by Natasha in Question It, Researching Reform
As the nation's Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse starts to roll out its £1 million pound advertising campaign, the decision is being met with mixed feelings.
Whilst the hope is that the campaign will help to engage more survivors, a sense of dissatisfaction is growing amongst those who have been abused. One complaint aired by victims' groups is that they have been excluded for the most part from proceedings, with survivors' voices rarely heard during evidence sessions. They argue that there is no point in attracting more engagement if those who speak out are ignored.
Writer and broadcaster Beatrix Campbell OBE, whose book about child sexual abuse in Cleveland is considered to be an important work on the scandal, feels that our Inquiry is lacking the same level of engagement and open dialogue which has made Australia's own inquiry so successful. Researching Reform agrees with this view, and has written about this phenomenon as well. But there may be other reasons for our Inquiry's ongoing troubles.
Unlike Australia which has become with time, a little removed from its colonial past, the heart of imperial politics lies in Westminster, and has changed little. As a result, there may be hidden pressures the public cannot see which are inherently connected to an elitist establishment still controlling vast sections of government. An elitist establishment which may stand to lose more than a few cabinet ministers if the truth ever gets out.
Our question then, is this: what factors do you think are playing a part in our Inquiry finding it so difficult to get the engagement they need to carry out their work in full?
Posted by Natasha in News, Researching Reform
The child welfare stories this week, that should be right on your radar:
Four in ten children's services unable to meet legal duties due to funding pressures
Lords debates 'A Manifesto to Strengthen Families'
'Rude and aggressive' social worker who endangered sick child's health suspended
A big thank you to Michele Simmons for alerting us to the first news item.
Social Workers Caught Fabricating Evidence Boosts Call To Track Documents
Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform, social work
Yet another social worker has been exposed for making up evidence in a child protection case, which could have resulted in the mother losing her child to the care system.
Linda Fraser, who works for Bristol city council as a senior social worker, edited child protection records in order to persuade the judge to place the child in care. Ms Fraser then lied to the court about having done so.
District judge Julie Exton found that Ms Fraser had added new information to case notes in order to bolster evidence against the mother. Ms Fraser then tried to suggest she was suffering from poor mental health and stress at the time and could not remember altering the records. The appeal court wasn't buying it, and details of her conduct were sent to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), who then summoned Fraser before a disciplinary panel.
During the HCPC hearing, Ms Fraser denied several counts of misconduct, including suggesting to a court that it was the children's social worker who had made the edits.
For reasons which remain unclear, the HCPC allowed Ms Fraser to give her evidence in private, using a measure usually reserved for vulnerable witnesses.
Ms Fraser also asked that live tweeting at the hearing be stopped, however upon the HCPC panel receiving legal advice on the matter, the panel refused her request.
Ms Fraser remains in Bristol council's employment as a senior social worker.
The fabrication of evidence inside the Family Courts has become an epidemic. Google "social worker fabricated evidence", and page upon page of reported cases come up. And those are just the publicly available ones. There is also an alarming number of Freedom Of Information requests investigating the issue.
The case above throws up the important, though admittedly unsexy, question of whether edits of child protection files should be formally tracked, with names and dates of parties making the changes all recorded. It is something Researching Reform addressed at the beginning of this year, when a similar case was made public. With the right software, and a good document production policy in place, this could be easily achieved, at minimal cost. This was what we proposed in January:
What a document production policy might look like –
Child welfare professionals must produce documents in line with best practice guidelines whilst adhering to law and local authority policy
Where the author of a document makes edits during its production, those edits must be tracked using standard tracking software on Word or Pages files.
Where the author of a document or report wishes to make edits after producing the document, he or she must file a form with the local authority, preferably through an online database, which is numbered and accessible to all parties to a case entitled to see this document.
Edits would then be added using the standard tracking software available with online text files so changes would also be visible.
If evidence is required to confirm the authenticity of any amendments outlining facts which are not immediately obvious, this must also be submitted with the form
The form must then be reviewed by a team manager or judge, depending on the circumstances and the nature of the edits. The reviewing party may also request further evidence or information before approving the edit/s
If the edits are approved, this must be evidenced on the form, so that a timeline of actions is recorded, preferably through an online system which logs and saves all data for every case, including who approved the edits
If the edits are not approved, reasons on the form must be given as to why
Where a professional who has not produced the document which is submitted for editing wishes to make an edit, that professional must also seek permission to edit that document via a form, as above.
All edits to a document must be tracked on the file itself, and shown to the relevant parties including individuals to whom the edits refer, so that they may raise any objections within a prescribed time frame
Families who want to address factual errors within such documents, whether they are found in the edits or the original draft of the document, should also be able to do so via a form, with appropriate evidence where required
Anyone found to have altered a document without permission should face being struck off and/or subject to criminal sanctions.
There may be a simpler way of doing this. Then again, the above process may just deter people from engaging in unethical behaviour in the first place.
Many thanks to Sabine for alerting us to this case.


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Tractor hits railway bridge on busy Exeter road
Traffic was affected in both directions
Chris MatthewsCourt Reporter
A major road in and out of Exeter was blocked in both directions after a tractor hit a railway bridge.
The A3015 Honiton Road was closed in both directions following the accident at the bridge.
Traffic monitoring site Inrix reported: "A3015 Honiton Road in both directions partially blocked, slow traffic due to accident, a tractor involved at the railway bridge.
"A tractor has hit the railway bridge, affecting traffic between Blackhorse and Exeter."
The road fully reopened by 6pm.
Updates regarding the condition of those involved and traffic in the area will appear in the live blog below.
Devon and Cornwall Police update
A Devon and Cornwall force incident manager said: "It appears to be a minor scrape to the bridge. Network Rail has been contacted and we've left the scene. Network Rail is sending an engineer. There was an initial blockage but it's been resolved."


Are more than 70% of your neighbors making more than $100,000 a year? If so, chances are your zip code may be on the list of top 30 zip codes with the highest percentage of households earning six-figures. Topping the list are: 60043 (Kenilworth, IL), 22039 (Fairfax Station, VA), 22066 (Great Falls, VA), 94506 (Danville, CA) and 94027 (Atherton, CA). This list is compiled by real estate information provider OnBoard LLC.
To be clear, I don't give this study much credit. If your zip code is not on this list, it does not mean your community is behind the curve.
First, zip code is an abritrary level of geographic dimension. As discussed in the accompanying CNNmoney story, "[m]any high income neighborhoods fall out of the top rankings because they share postal delivery with more moderate income communities."
The $100,000 is an arbitrary number too. $100,000 a year can make you a king in some midwest areas, but you cannot even save enough for your downpayment if you live near some over-heated real estate markets.
Want to learn more about people's financial profile by zip code? Here is the bonus: Individual Tax Statistics by Zip Code.


Candy Coaster was inspired by the Sweet Sweet Galaxy level from Super Mario Galaxy, and as such it features a cave made of chocolate bars, cakes, cookies, ice creams and candy canes, along with plenty of decorations ported from that game. "Cookie Coaster" was the working title, but after more candy canes were added, the creator decided to name this track "Candy Coaster".
Torran, for fixing the custom object.
ALPHAMARIOX, for centering the minimap.
Gomer, for animating the chocolate and the cannon.
Ermelber, for adding vertex colors and fixing textures.
Lowered walls in the KCL.
Removed glitchy chocolate bumps at the end.
v2.1 2013-09-29 Fixed various KMP glitches.
Bullet Bills are taking turns better now.
Bullet Bill doesn't drop players at the cliff anymore.
The trickable chocolate bumps at the end are glitchy.
In a 12-player room online the game slows down at the end section.
Animations stopped working, after fixing the Harry Potter Effect.
Bullet Bills fall off or run into walls.
KCL bugs (it's possible to go through a wall).
One item route section doesn't work.
A Bullet Bill often drops players in a corner or at a cliff, which causes them to fall off.
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It's been some time since the last significant update to Microsoft Launcher, with Microsoft introducing a wide range of features with versions 5.0 and 5.1. Today, the company has announced version 5.3 of its Android launcher, and even though it doesn't bring any ground-breaking new features, it includes a range of improvements to many aspects of the experience.
The new update coincides with the move of the Launcher community to Microsoft's Tech Community website, which has become the hub for all of Microsoft's products and services. As mentioned in the changelog, the launcher settings will now link to the new website when trying to access the beta community.
While Microsoft has indeed announced the new update, it seems to be a staggered release and we haven't seen it on our test devices. It may take some time to be available for everyone, so you may need to be patient if you desperately need any of the improvements included in this version. For now, you can download Microsoft Launcher from the Play Store, and the same page will let you sign up for the beta if you want to be one of the first to access the latest features.