Child protection is a highly complex, challenging and sensitive area of law, demanding an outstanding level of expertise from Counsel.
Speaking of the child protection law in England and Wales, The Right Honourable the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE, the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom posed the following question:
“In a free society, it is a serious thing indeed for the state compulsorily to remove a child from his family of birth. Interference with the right to respect for family life…. can only be justified by a pressing social need. Yet it is also a serious thing for the state to fail to safeguard its children from the neglect and ill-treatment which they may suffer in their own homes. This may even amount to a violation of their right not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment…. How then is the law to protect the family from unwarranted intrusion while at the same time protecting children from harm?”
In answering the question her Ladyship said that in England and Wales, legislations tries to balance these two objectives by setting a threshold which must be crossed before a court can consider what order, if any, should be made to enable the authorities to protect a child. Her Ladyship went on to say that the threshold is designed to restrict compulsory intervention to cases which genuinely warrant it, while enabling the court to make the order which will best promote the child’s welfare once the threshold has been crossed.
Members of BrisbaneChambers specialising in the area of child protection have a comprehensive understanding of the legislation which in England and Wales, and, of course, in Queensland, underpins and regulates such draconian interference by the state into children’s and their family’s lives.
Our advocates have decades of experience in child protection law spanning both hemispheres.
If you would like to avail yourselves of these services, we are happy to discuss your options and allocate a suitable barrister for you: call Robin Slade Jones on the main Chambers number (07) 3181 5578 or on 0423 778567.
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