Customer Reviews
a catalogue of injustice - By: Peter Wade, 06 Oct 2008 
The problem with complaining about any system especially one as powerful as the divorce courts you are taking on the establishment & any complainant it branded as a troublemaker.
Nowadays were are encouraged to provide feedback on almost every experience we have. I used to fill themin & make specific comments. i don't bother any more as the comments are swept under the carpet.
Even if you are a completely biased observer & take the view that the fathers are guilty of poor behaviour the system should not treat them the way that they do. Criminalsin prison seem to have more rights than fathers.
The court system is designed to provide work for judges barristers & solicitors & these things are all tied upin consent orders & rarely are there court cases where disputes are aired. Judges don't want to make decisions they just want to pat lawyers on the back for coming to a sensible decision. That is one that does not ruffle the court system.
The court system is also very class ridden. They would ridicule anyone who could not speak or write properly. They would then have you written off as a working class oik. they are urged by the Lord chancellor to help litigantsin person but they are told not to give legal advice. You have to make your way through a system set up for the convenience of the legal profession & the courts not the public.
I would be interested to know if any of these writers of books about the divorce courts know how to mount a defence that works. Obviously constantly appealing against judgment doesn't to seem to work.
Highly recommended & a must read for anyone who wants to know how the establishment crushes those who complain.
not so 'family' Court. - By: broken home child, 09 Sep 2008 We had the lie-telling Dr Hamish Cameronin our case too. My own parents divorce was similar to the Harris casein Family Court Hell. Years of dishonest court experts all telling us (I'm the eldest of four sisters) what to say which had to coincide with our mothers' wishes about us seeing our Dad. We even had this appalling Dr Hamish Cameron who, likein the Harris case, lied about our Dad. Cameron is pure evil, corrupt & wicked. The book though is an excellent insight about the injustices of family courts. I do wonder, now aged 20 & looking back, could all of these people abuse childrenin this way if these courts were fully open to the press & public?
why - By: Mrs. Carol J. Damerell, 07 Jul 2008 why are these courts allowed to get away with it i feel so sorry for mark & his girls
i know mark & his daughter lisa
he taught my daughter to drive she liked him & ithink he is a good man
The courts where some are more equal than others before the law - By: Post enlightenment, 17 Jun 2008 The most elementary principle of justicein a democracy is that all are held to be equalin the eyes of the law. On the evidence of this book it is now abundantly clear that a father, far from being equalin disputes over access to his children, is held to be of no accountin the secret family courts. He is liable to be dispossessed of all contact with his children at will by his former wife or partner on a whim or as part of a family feud. Mark Harris' one mistake was to marry into a family of vindictive sociopaths who forcibly abducted his wife & children & smashed up the family home. That he stayedin touch with those children & stuck it out through truly Kafkaesque abuse of legal process by the secret family courts & their corrupt mendacious judges, counsel & so called experts for 10 years, until the passage of time allowed his children to make their own choice, is a tribute to human endurance on a parallel with any other I have read about. The lengths the authorities went toin smearing & crushing the harmless organised protests that fathersin similar situations put on, show what kind of state we live in. This book is also a wake up call to defenders of civil liberties, people with whom I normally do not have much sympathy. It turns out that even the alleged plot to kidnap Leo Blair was probably put about by the security services. Was the so called desecration at Stonehenge a matter for grave disquiet? Not really; it was an imaginative publicity stunt & did no damage to the monument. Until the family courts are brought out into the light of day & scrutinised properly, the grave miscarriages of justice describedin this book will continue. It used to be said that an Englishman's home was his castle until his wife decided to take it away from him. To that can now be added that his children are his own until the lady decides to remove them with the backing of the courts & legal establishment.
Shocking, gripping, essential - By: Robert Macmillan, 17 Jun 2008 Those, like me, who thought that British courts believein dispensing justice need to read this book. It is a shocking story of an ordinary father & his daughters being forced apart by a selfish mother & the British legal system. As a separated man who has fortunately avoided the family court system I find it appalling & terrifying that other menin similar situations have their children taken away from them & their fight for justice brings them misery, poverty &in Harris's case, jail.
Thank you Mark Harris for writing this book. Thank you Lisa Harris for standing up for yourself & your sisters & your father. May all those involvedin perpetrating these miscarriages of justice & ruining people's lives read this book & change their ways.
I'm off to join F4J. (I'll look ridiculousin tights.)
