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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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IwantToRetire · 17/09/2026 17:47

Thanks to all for detailing the info about the judgement.

I had misunderstood and thought that because of new guidance the original decision should have been accepted as being wrong.

But of course, no one can undo what has happened in the intervening years, not only for the mother, but the daughter as well.

Its hard to believe the still, even in the 21st century, there are still almost Victorian attitudes about how what men say and think is always more "credible" that what a woman says, and their right to have "their rights" as a parent come first.

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ScrollingLeaves · 17/09/2026 18:19

It is incredible.
In my bold below you see how the psychologist does not believe the mother and has a completely different view of the father from the picture conveyed by the mother. Of course we don’t know what the truth is, but by all accounts this happens time and time again.

At para. 65, the judge found that the mother’s view of the father was “extremely negative.” She had made allegations against the father in relation to his mental health and drug use, “and has kept going back to those matters despite my earlier decisions. In my view, she has raised those matters in an effort to portray him in a negative light.”

As to the way the mother had described the father to Dr Matthews:
“Dr Matthews felt she [the mother] was describing someone with significant personality difficulties, which is not what Dr Matthews found in her own examination of the father. This is the picture the mother has presented to the court, and the picture she asks the court to find about the father.”

IwantToRetire · 22/09/2026 18:26

I am not sure this belongs here or is another aspect and should have its own thread.

The System Is The Weapon: How Abusive Fathers Exploit Family Courts Against Mothers and Children
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GZ86NVMS

Or maybe there is another existing thread.

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ScrollingLeaves · 22/09/2026 23:44

That looks like an excellent book.

WarriorN · 24/09/2026 07:44

Lundy is so good on all this stuff. How can he see it when so many others can’t?

WarriorN · 24/09/2026 07:49

IwantToRetire · 22/09/2026 18:26

I am not sure this belongs here or is another aspect and should have its own thread.

The System Is The Weapon: How Abusive Fathers Exploit Family Courts Against Mothers and Children
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GZ86NVMS

Or maybe there is another existing thread.

The blurb alone describes what I’ve seen friends go though, even when the ex is a convicted pedophile.

Luckily the police they’ve dealt with do seem to be aware of this and well
trained. One friend had police turn up to deal with what her ex described as harassment but was fully believed when she demonstrated that he’d used them to harass her.

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