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Parental Alienation expert: Witch Hunt or Witch Hunter

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IwantToRetire · 29/06/2026 20:37

How has a person with a faux CV been allowed to recommend ‘draconian’ decisions about children and families in the name of P.A.?

And why have some judges been reluctant to consider challenges to her credentials and credibility.

https://beatrixcampbell.substack.com/p/melanie-gill-witch-hunt-or-witch

See also thread from last year https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5432222-woman-who-lost-custody-of-children-has-experts-evidence-overturned?page=1

Woman who lost custody of children has expert’s evidence overturned | Mumsnet

^A mother has won a landmark legal battle to overturn the evidence of an unregulated psychologist that resulted in her losing custody of her daughters...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5432222-woman-who-lost-custody-of-children-has-experts-evidence-overturned?page=1

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mrshoho · 29/06/2026 22:36

It's appalling that her opinion held such sway and has been so devastating in these cases.

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IwantToRetire · 29/06/2026 22:23

Notmycircusnotmyotter · 29/06/2026 20:53

Why does Melanie Gill hate women?! That's terrifying. Poor mother.

Bea Campbell's article sort of implies it is because she is a right wing (a Conservative) reactionary.

But even if that were the reason, doesn't explain why she has dedicated her life to interjecting herself into situations where she has no right to be.

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IwantToRetire · 29/06/2026 22:15

What be done to change this?

This is partly why I posted this. I had sort of assumed that somehow it had been dealt with, but maybe not. Let alone anyone taking responsibility for the children's lives that have been if not ruined far worse than they need have been.

Bea Campbell's article finishes with:

New transparency rules, now operational nationwide, enable a wider audience to access Gill’s idiosyncratic methods, her defiance of judicial practice directions, and her belief that children’s expressed wishes and feelings can be ignored because they have been brainwashed, and don’t have the ‘neurological architecture’ to think about what’s going on in their lives.

This obviously contravenes judicial directions and judgements that stress the importance of a factual matrix and actual behaviour, rather than theory or ideological concepts that was emphasised in the landmark case, Re C (‘Parental Alienation’; Instruction of Expert).

So far, however, judges have decided that the courts are not an ‘appropriate’ forum to assess the honesty of Gill’s CVs. Though P.A. and pseudo science seem to be done for in family courts, the legacy bequeathed to children of ‘draconian’ judgements and ruined lives, proposed by identified and unidentified, registered and unregistered ‘experts’ and accepted by judges, is yet to be addressed.

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ScrollingLeaves · 29/06/2026 21:51

That is horrific. It is somehow like the post office scandal.

This is so wrong:

The Victims Commissioner, Clare Waxman and Right to Equality, a campaign for reform of the family courts, have called for a review of Gill’s cases. The government is worried about unregulated experts, but rejected a review. The demand exposes a lacuna in the family courts: in criminal justice, there is a system to address unjust convictions, the Criminal Cases Review Commission. It has been severely criticised for multiple failures following privatisation, cuts and a devalued forensic science sector stuck in ‘a graveyard spiral.’

Yet it exists while there is no equivalent in the family court system, and no mechanism to address the possible miscarriages of justice to which James Munby referred.

What be done to change this?

https://futurejustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/FS_Digital_latest.pdf

Hedgehogforshort · 29/06/2026 21:10

I once came across her in court, as an expert witness myself. She was making a good living.

Notmycircusnotmyotter · 29/06/2026 20:53

Why does Melanie Gill hate women?! That's terrifying. Poor mother.