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McKenzie Archive

Articles, letters or other items for publication should be submitted to the FNF Editor giving full postal address and a contact telephone number.
All submissions may be edited for space or content. 

 

Issues currently available online

 

Issues that are more than a year old are available to view online. More recent editions can be downloaded in the Members' Area

 

 

76: September 2007

(pdf 2.60 MB)

 

Residence transfered to fathers following mothers obstructing contact in two landmark recent cases

Father jailed for refusing to pay the CSA

The CAFCASS experience

Unreliable Evidence

NSPCC - working to support fathers

 

 

75: June 2007

(pdf 2.40 MB)

 

The McKenzie Friend Debate - Paid or Un-paid?

Judicial Continuity continued... a judge in a million

The myth of child welfare

A year on the helpline

 

 

74: April 2007

(pdf 2.27 MB)

 

196,400 reasons why the CSA is inept

Snakes and Ladders in the PRFD

International Parental Alienation Awareness Day

Ireland and the Legal Tiger

Pro-Contact

 

 

73: February 2007

(pdf 2.12 MB)

 

Shared Parenting makes children safer

Family Law Barrister at Central London Branch

Grandparents Special - Parenting Page

Progress and Campaiging in Scotland

Shared Parenting is the best way to reduce unpaid child maintenance

 

 

Christmas 2006 

(Pdf 2.17 MB) 

Hotel California, A Tale of Two Jurisdictions

Openness of the Family Courts, A Decision Near

The Good Thorpe, Bad Thorpe Routine

BT's Latest Ad Campaign Derogatory to Non-Resident Fathers

 

71: September 2006

(pdf 1.64 MB)

FNF member busts open secret family courts

Grandparents' Social Services battle

FNF meets Lord Chancellor

 


70: Fathers Day 2006

(pdf 6400 kb)


10th Annual Fathers Day Boat Trip

An Absolute Majority of MPs support Shared Parenting

A Father reunited with daughter and son

The Contact Centre experience

The CSA file

 69: March 2006

(pdf 565KB)



Support for FNF parents

UK Fathers to get parental equality

Death of F4J

National Society for the Prevention

of Contact with Children


 

68: Winter 2005

(pdf 1MB)

NSPCC
Testosterone
Domestic Violence on Men is funny?
Parenting workshops
Life on the FNF Helpline

 

67: September 2005

 (pdf 104KB)

"Parent-ectomy" father gets Residence
(see issue 56)

Volunteers Conference report

Male Role Models

 

66: June 2005

(pdf 905 KB)

Teen pregnancy
Health visitor complaint
Domestic violence statistics
10 top tips (pass to your ex)
Collaborative Law
A co-parenting agreement

 

65: Spring 2005

(pdf 1.12 MB)

 

Shared Residence for lesbians

Election briefing

 

 

64: March 2005

(pdf 1.08 MB)

Parenting Plans

Bringing up babies

The Blunkett saga

 

 

 
63: Winter 2004

(pdf 6.2 MB) 

 

 

US Election, Kerry or Bush?

"no bias in the Family Court"

Parenting Workshops

 
 

62: Autumn 2004

(pdf 1.17 MB)

 

CAFCASS Draft version 1
Emotional Abuse
FNF Forums
Shared Parenting in Sweden
Child Abduction in Germany

 

 61: Summer 2004
(pdf 4.6 MB)
69% of ftahers do want 50:50 Shared Parenting

Reversal of Residence: V v V 

New Family Justice Council to help Court Users
Naming and Shaming of 4 jusges who exclude McKenzie Friends
Can discredited CAFCASS be saved? 
 
 

60: Spring 2004

(pdf 3.12 MB)

Judge blames the system for failing fathers
Accessing Medical Information
Judge Munby
 59: February 2004
(pdf 864 KB)
Contact Denied - even in Death
The Data Protection Act
Eurodivorce
Girls Need Fathers 
 58: December 2003
(pdf 1.17 MB)
Bob Geldof says "Get Political"

Legal Aid Special

FNF of F4J? 

 57: Autmn 2003
(pdf 974 KB)

Social Policy Industry Politics

PAS Psychiatrist Dies

Domestic Violence: The Consultation

 56: Summer 2003
(pdf 887 KB)

QC or not QC, that is the question

Not Guilty: the case in defense of men

Mums and Sons, Dads and Daughters

 

55: Spring 2003
(pdf 1.34 MB)


Automatic PR delayed
Children born out of wedlock
Still have no legal Father
New CSA rules
Does PAS Exist?

 

54: Winter 2002/3

(pdf 2.57 MB)

By River and Canal

Targeting the Reporters
 

 53: Summer 2002

(pdf 2.41 MB)

The Contact Dilema

Between the Lines - LJ Thorpe 

 

52: Spring 2002

(pdf 675 KB)

 

New CSA rules

New Articles of Association

 

 

51: Winter 2001/2

(pdf 1.31 MB)

 

Enforcing contact

Domestic Violence

 

 

50: Autumn 2001

(pdf 921 KB) 

 

New CAFCASS

AGM special

DNA - Genetic Testing

 

 

49: Summer 2001

(pdf 1.5 MB)

 

Reform Group

PR consultation paper

 

Prior McKenzie Issues without online versions.