A judge’s play shows some of the secret workings of family courts amid calls for greater transparency
A distraught young mother sits in front of a judge in a family court. Beside her sits her baby’s social worker. Alongside are the child’s grandmother and grandfather, and at the end of the row, a young man, the father. His leg taps and jumps. He looks away, looks down, looks anywhere but at the judge. The judge too looks anywhere but at the family in front of him. As he speaks, the room chills.
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