FOREIGN CONCERN ABOUT CARE PROCEEDINGS

That this House notes the statements by the former chief justices of Punjab and Delhi, thatcases in care proceedings in the developed world are often based upon woefully inadequate evidence, including hearsay, conjectures and speculations that would not be admissible in other types of legal proceedings; further notes that Nigeria, the Slovak Republic, Hungary and the Czech Republic have expressed concerns about proceedings in the UK; further notes continuing examples of malpractice in UK proceedings; and calls for Parliament to review some individual cases of alleged malpractice to identify the extent to which this problem in the UK is being concealed.