Make perjury a criminal offence in Family Court and CAFCASS to stop manipulation

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

Mandates to protect child's rights are used to manipulate Cafcass officers and Family Court. Resident parents allege or suggest abuse so Cafcass removes access from non resident parent. When found false in court, children are older and now estranged from non resident parent. No deterrent exists

Cafcass officers are poorly trained to recognise intentionally misleading parents.
Discriminatory views of fathers are used against them by mothers and Cafcass to instil fear in the court.
Children are regularly lied to and triangulated into the parental conflict by the mother in order to eliminate the father from the childs life.
Fathers are assumed guilty until proven innocent on the back of lies by the mother and testimony of children who have been manipulated by ill intended mothers.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Perjury is an offence under the Perjury Act 1911. The offence is committed where a witness under oath willfully makes a material statement in a judicial proceeding which they know to be false or do not believe to be true. It is punishable by a maximum of seven years imprisonment, or a fine, or both a fine and imprisonment.

The current law on perjury already applies to evidence given in family proceedings.

Timeline

3 Jul 2016	Petition opened for signatures
15 Jul 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 Jul 2016

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