Sir Bob Geldof’s “deep rage for our Family Courts and the inadequate practitioners that work within it”

In his foreword to “Relocation and Leave to Remove” a report published on 7 December 2009 and penned by The Custody Minefield, an internet resource for parents and families in children’s disputes on relationship breakdown, Sir Bob delivers another trenchant verdict, labelling our Family Law system “barbaric, criminally damaging, abusive, neglectful, harmful to society, the family, the parents and the children in whose name it purports to act”, run “…like a secret society its members – the judges,lawyers, social and child “care” agencies.”
In other colourful passages Sir Bob mentions “state sanctioned kidnap of our most vulnerable”, “vested interest intransigence”, “a farrago of cod professionalism”, “modish unproven nostrums”, “prejudice, gender bias and awful impartial cruelty”.
I can think of one he missed – costly. Sir Bob has a point though, as the Report, a compilation of extracts from others research drawn together by Michael Robinson, a McKenzie friend and author of articles, factsheets and self help books on topics related to family law, child welfare and psychology (including a book of that same name), seeks to demonstrate.