Daughter suffered chronic fatigue, not child abuse
Spotlight on secrecy in family justice system
Parents who were suspected of making up their daughter's illness and fought a
lengthy battle to keep her out of care before social workers dropped the case
have won a high court ruling requiring that the General Medical Council
re-examine their complaint against the two paediatricians who sparked the
concerns.
The case, which until now has been shrouded in the secrecy involved in
court cases about children, has come to light only because the parents took
the GMC to the high court after it initially rejected their complaint.
Tomorrow Sir Mark Potter, president of the high court's family division and
the senior family judge in England and Wales,
will face
MPs to answer questions about the lack of transparency in the family
justice system. Critics say the confidentiality rules allow those operating
within the system to escape the accountability which goes with media scrutiny.
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