SIR PAUL JAMES DUKE COLERIDGE, High Court Family Division.

Sir Paul James Duke Coleridge, (Mr Justice Coleridge) is considered a potential 'young gun' of the Family Division (although he's 60....) and is clearly being groomed for 'better things', which in the secret family law division means he will become either an appeal court 'Law Lord' or president of the family division at some point.

Like a lot of these career chasers in the family courts, either heading up some big government funded public inquiry (like Sir Nicholas Wall in his 'Making Contact Work' paper in 2001 or Dame Butler-Sloss in the 1990's when she headed up the Cleveland Inquiry) or getting regular press coverage which indicates some form of innovative or common sense thinking certainly aids a judge to climb the family court promotion ladder.

(see Coleridge articles;      Daily Mail 2008    Daily Mail 2009     Daily Mail 2010 )

'Sir Paul James Duke Coleridge' was the very last judge who appeared in the Harris case (Britains worst ever child contact case) which features in the book available on this website called FAMILY COURT HELL.

Coleridge was asked by the child expert approved by the court at the time, a Dr Nigel Blagg, to bring pressure upon the mother to comply with the court order for contact between Mark Harris and his two eldest daughters (Lisa and Laura) who the mother was blocking from having contact with their dad. Dr Blagg made clear the mothers' actions would significantly harm the girls if contact with their father did not take place.

Judge Coleridge REFUSED to enforce his own order upon the mother to comply, despite the state the case had got into (132 hearings spanning alomst ten years and him being the 33rd judge in the case) and the recommendations of Dr Nigel Blagg, child expert.

He however made a laughable court order adjustment where he wrote in  "it is hoped and expected Lisa & Laura would attend the next contact".

Now, some years later (and in his pitch to become the next President of the Family Division or Law Lord), Sir Paul has made regular news in the Daily Mail of late about how the courts are failing children and the authority of the court is being undermined by mothers breaking contact orders.

He 'starred' in a speech to the Association of Lawyers for children' in November 2010 where he not only went through the mutual 'back slaping' of other useless judges and a named (and shamed) Corrupt Expert Witness that plays the system for financial gain, he went on to set out his 'vision' on how to enforce contact orders, the extract follows;

2. Simple/swift Enforcement.

As if they were disobedient children, parents need to be given the clearest

understanding of the consequences of their flouting court orders especially

in the field of contact. A clear process or system of enforcement, generally

appreciated and understood by all parties, is essential for the reaffirmation

of the court’s authority, the efficient disposal of cases and the saving of

huge amounts of public time and money.

If I were to call it “three strikes and you are out” it sounds

antediluvian and insensitive but something like it, perhaps should be the

norm in the interests of clarity for all separated parents. In other words if

an order is disobeyed, say, three times the residence of the child should

normally be transferred to the other parent.

The three breaches might take the following route e.g.

1. A simple contact order followed, if that was breached, by

2. A detailed and closely defined contact order with a very clear

warning (possibly in writing and signed by the judge) followed if that was

further breached by

3. A suspended residence order with conditions of contact attached

which if breached again would lead to immediate change of residence

with almost no further recourse to the court. In other words three broken

orders.

Now Coleridge, like all his mates, clearly KNOWS contact orders need enforcement, and the powers exist today-as they always have done- to enforce any contact order that is being broken (switching residence, seizing assets, fines, prison), so why is n't this clown and his cronies doing just that??????

When he was written to at the RCJ after his speech appeared in the Daily Mail asking just why does he not do just what he's suggesting, he simply would not answer.  

Like as most of us have suspected for years, family court judges REFUSE to do their duty, they KNOW contact orders should and could be made and enforced in almost every case, the powers already exist to make virtually all contact orders work, but because of some hidden politically correct agenda going on, (or perhaps just to feed the divorce industry they all have come from with lucrative work) these clowns just won't do it.

Remember, automatic rights to see your kids post divorce and separation (shared residence, as intended in the Children Act 1989) , enforced where necessary would all but kill the goose of family court litigation that keeps these people in luxury (click here to read how the adulterous judge Mostyn made his millions).

*Coleridge's full and mainly nauseating speech of self abuse and indulgence of the legal profession can be found in the link below.

Coleridge speech, NOV 2010