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• Child welfare hit by lack of legal aid in family court cases | Letters

  24-02-2019 19:04
  It is hard to see how a child’s interests can be truly prioritised and safeguarded if one of the parties is not properly advised and represented, writes a former lay judge in the family courtLouise Tickle (Why I fought for the right to open up family court decisions to greater scrutiny, 20 February) focuses on reporting restrictions, by virtue of which errant local authorities and judges are, in her view, protected from scrutiny. In my view, the greater evil is the absence of legal aid in
  
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• Pope Francis compares abuse of children to human sacrifice

  24-02-2019 12:19
  Pontiff tells Vatican conference no effort will be spared to bring abusers within clergy to justicePope Francis, ending a landmark Vatican conference on sexual abuse by the clergy, called on Sunday for an “all-out battle” against a crime he called abominable and compared to human sacrifice.Francis vowed that the Roman Catholic church would “spare no effort” to bring abusers to justice and would not cover up or underestimate abuse. Continue reading...
  
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• Campaigners furious after pope's 'defensive' speech on child abuse

  24-02-2019 12:19
  Pontiff accused of ‘undoing tiny bit of progress’ achieved at high-profile Vatican summitActivists for survivors of clerical sexual abuse have reacted furiously after Pope Francis failed to promise a “zero tolerance” approach to paedophile priests and the bishops who cover up their crimes as he closed a landmark summit at the Vatican.Francis vowed that the Roman Catholic church would “spare no effort” to bring abusers to justice and would not cover up or under
  
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