Fathers4Justice Founder in High Court Judicial Review Final Hearing over Closed Courts
HEARING 21 OCTOBER 2016 The founder of Fathers4Justice appears in the High Court (Royal Courts of Justice) on FRIDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2016 for the trial of his Judicial Review Claim seeking to quash the decision of Aldershot Magistrates Court on 20 February 2015 to hold his trial for a minor public order offence in a […]
Elmo’s Crusade
A furry red Muppet monster might seem an unlikely figurehead for a one-man campaign, but Elmo is the moniker adopted by fathers’ rights activist Bobby Smith, a dad of two girls, who has been a sharp thorn in the backside of the establishment over the last few years. Smith, a 34-year-old lorry driver from Stevenage, […]
Judge Judy backs equal rights for dads
Want to know what Judge Judy Sheindlin thinks about fathers’ rights and shared parenting? When interviewed on Larry King Live recently, the issue of joint custody came up. Here is an excerpt from the interview: “I’ve always thought in this country we do a terrible disservice to fathers.” Judge Judy JUDGE JUDY: I was a […]
Anne Widdecombe: men are losing the sexism war
Anne Widdecombe has told the Daily Express that men, not women, are suffering from sexism. The former Tory MP, who previously met Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor to discuss the plight of separated dads, insists there is a “lax attitude” to ensuring the parental rights of fathers. Widdecombe said if she was going to “rail against […]
Challenge To Anonymisation Practice In Child Support Appeals: Final Hearing Thursday 6 October 2016 In Open Court
Mr CJA had a successful child support appeal to the Upper Tribunal heard in open court with no reporting restrictions but found that the Judgment [2014] UKUT 359 (AAC) appeared anonymised on the public database, at http://www.osscsc.gov.uk/Aspx/view.aspx?id=4272. Anonymisation was a rubber stamp process following a fully public hearing and done without any judicial direction, and is being challenged in a […]
SOS Viagra Sausages launched as part of men’s health campaign
Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor has launched a range of Viagra Sausages as part of a new Save Our Sausages (SOS) campaign aimed at cooking up awareness about what he says is an alarming public health emergency facing men. Inspired by his own experience with depression and the thousands of cases he has been made aware […]
Dads will be frozen out by new Sperm App say Fathers4Justice
Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor spoke on Channel5’s The Wright Stuff this morning to say that a new app allowing women to browse for sperm donors on their mobile phones reduces fathers to the status of ‘sperm banks’. The app from London Sperm Bank Donors lets women browse men by a series of characteristics including height, ethnicity and […]
Statement: Danny Cole
We have been made aware of a number of false and malicious allegations about F4J made by Danny Cole on his Twitter account @ChildNeedFather. For the record, Mr Cole never joined or registered with F4J for advice. He was given pro-bono, goodwill advice, on an ad hoc basis over a short period of time about […]
Tory MP Eric Pickles brands Fathers4Justice “the most pointless organisation in the entire world”
Tory MP Eric Pickles has told a Fathers4Justice supporter he was getting on his nerves and didn’t support equal rights for dads, before branding the campaign group “the most pointless organisation in the entire world”. Father-of-one, Adam Lowe, from Brentwood went to see his MP to ask him for help to see his young son, […]
The London Economic: The Shocking Cost of Fatherlessness in the UK
By Matt O’Connor, Founder, Fathers4Justice While the debate around the fatherless society is normally framed by emotional and legal arguments, few have considered the seismic impact this has on our economy. The devastating cancer of family breakdown and fatherlessness isn’t just laying waste to families, it also comes at a punitive human and economic cost […]
