You know what I hope the referendum on children’s rights has some law for parents rights to, particularly for fathers rights . I hope all get rights particularly children, they have the right to a father being their guardian to protect them. Unmarried fathers have no automatic rights to guardianship so tell me how can they bring in a law when in principle law already the un married parent/father has none. Is this to be included or is it just going to add to the mess which is already family law in this country.

Good to see the Government being proactive on the children’s rights referendum… Saturday is a good day for a referendum – unlikely to see a General Election contested on a weekend!!!

Well said Niall, Family Law like it is in this country is a failure of a supposed modern state. Children rights, and the Family Law angle that will feed off of it though is going to be just as messed up as the current Family Law system is. Somehow I foresee more of the wholesale abuse of the good intentions in which enactment of legislation to protect the vulnerable just makes new victims or further victimizes those same children whom were the intended beneficiaries of these rights. Except this time they’ll have the voice to be complicit in the proceedings and make decisions at very young ages about what is in their best interests, which is some heavy responsibility to put on a child.
Anyway, plenty more casework for the legal profession I suppose must be a good thing.