In an astonishing statement yesterday Lord Justice Wall – who was sworn in yesterday as the president of the high court’s family division – attacked social workers in Greenwich. In a bizarre interpretation of social workers’ legal duty towards children he said social workers’ legal duty should be to “unite families rather than separate them”
Which appears to beg four questions
Does he read the statutory framework?
Does he follow case law?
Does he read serious case reviews?
Should he be in his new job?
Read more at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/13/judge-shocked-social-workers-families
