A book of stupid judge tricks

Barbara Kay writes about a new book called Deadbeat Judges: How Courts Disenfranchise Fathers. It is a whole book of stupid judge tricks and the authour names the judges! I can't wait to read this book.

Brown has seen it all: judges who aren't up to date on the facts of domestic violence, and so base rulings on myths and stereotypes; a "disconcerting proportion" of judges who don't know the law they are supposed to be applying or don't care to apply it when they do know; judges who ignore evidence, affidavits and expert testimony that favour the father; judges who defer "difficult" (i. e., mother-unfriendly) decisions until it is too late; judges swift to punish fathers for support payment lapses, but loath to impose consequences on mothers who flout access orders.

The six case histories Brown de-constructs are his own, therefore factually reliable, and they will make the blood of any fair-minded reader boil. But while the names of the disputants are altered to protect the children, the actual identities of the case judges are revealed. Since it is well nigh impossible to expose judges' negligence and unprofessional conduct in any other democratic way, it is time, Brown feels, that demonstrably biased judges face accountability in the court of public opinion.

And public opinion, wherever it is concerned with real gender equity and the right of children to love and be loved by both their parents (in the absence of abuse), will find in these pages a damning indictment of Canada's family law system.