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The Government has decided not to move ahead with plans to compel witnesses to attend court after strong representations from the legal profession. In an October 2003 consultation paper the Home Office had suggested that witness orders (which were abolished in March 1997) could be reintroduced to compel reluctant witnesses to attend court. Non-attendance of… Read more »
State intervention in family life can be justified if parents are trying to operate in a “moral vacuum”, Children’s Minister Margaret Hodge said today. However, she stressed that intervention should always be aimed at enabling parents to make better choices – not punishing or controlling them. And she denied charges that the Government’s interventionist approach… Read more »
