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  • Give someone else a voice

    4 Brick Court's running team took part in the Great South Run (10 miles in Portsmouth on 26th October)on behalf of a favourite charity and your support would be greatly appreciated by the many children who have come to depend on VOICE.  VOICE is a charity entirely dedicated to giving support advice and assistance to the 60,000 children in care in the UK at any one time.

     

    The team from chambers included Jacqui Gilliatt, Louise MacLynn, Francis Cassidy, Lee Pearman and Paul Carver, joined by Jacqui's husband, John Sullivan, his friend David Parkinson and Jacqui's friends Carolyn & Tim Cobbold.

    You can log on to our Just Giving website and translate our pounding the pavements of Portsmouth in to pounds for this charity.

    Alternatively we will be happy to receive cheques made out to Voice at 4 Brick Court.

     

    Click to find out more about VOICE

  • New files on 4bc Website

    We have recently added to our website - the June 2008 updater - the Jargon Buster from A to Z (in  Family Law General) & the Family Law Bibliography (also in Family Law General).

  • Standard of Proof in Care Proceedings

    The House of Lords ruled on 11th June 2008 in an appeal in which three members of  4 Brick Court Chambers appeared before their Lordships on 19th and 20th May 2008. Marianna Hildyard QC and Isabelle Watson represented the Respondent father and Stuart Fuller (led by Stephen Cobb QC of 1 Garden Court Chambers) represented the Appellant children (through their Children’s Guardian). CAFCASS intervened.

  • Domestic Violence Practice Direction

    This Practice Direction came into force on 9.5.08.  See also the comments of Robert Stevens reported on the Family Law Week blog.

  • PLO Guidance for London

    Judge Altman, the Designated Judge for London, has issued an Initial Local Plan for London dated 10th April 2008in respect of the implementation of the Public Law Outline (which is already in force). It applies to the London Care Centre which means the PRFD & Barnet, Kingston & Croydon County Courts & is relevant also to cases transferred into those courts from the FPCs.

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Link Icon Adders

Award-winning site dealing with ADD/ ADHD information for child and adult sufferers and their families whose objective is to promote awareness to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and to provide information and as much free practical help as possible Adders.org is run by parents Simon and Caroline Hensby of Thanet ADDers, an ADD/ADHD non-profit support group based in Thanet, Kent.

Link Icon Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health

The ACAMH publishes the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Mental Health and a number of occasional papers. Most of the site's useful content is only available to subscribers.

Link Icon Association of Educational Psychologists

The AEP is the professional association and trade union for Educational Psychologists in England, Wales & Northern Ireland. The site contains basic information about the website.

Link Icon Attachment theory website

Useful database on the concept of attachment with brief summaries recent research on the topic and links to online journals and websites.

Link Icon Borderline Personality Disorder

A summary of its meaning, diagnosis and treatment implications from a US website about self-harm

Link Icon Borderline Personality Disorders

Fantastic resource aimed at friends & family of people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder put together by a US college professor.

Link Icon BPD Central

US site with information & resources about Borderline Personality Disorder.

Link Icon British Association of Psychotherapists

Founder member of the BCP, BAP specialises in individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults, adolescents and children and providing training for those who wish to qualify as psychotherapists.

Link Icon British Psychoanalytic Council

The BPC maintains a voluntary register of psychoanalytic psychotherapists in the UK. There is the facility to search for a therapist from the site.

Link Icon British Psychological Society

Website of the representative and accrediting body for British Psychologists. Searchable directory of psychologists and searchable register and information about specialist subgroups including Forensic Psychologists and Educational & Child Psychology.

Link Icon BUBL Link: Mental Health

[[BUBL LINK]] is the name of a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and catalogued according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described. Links are checked and fixed each month. LINK stands for Libraries of Networked Knowledge. This the page for mental health resources.

Link Icon BUBL Links: Psychiatry

BUBL catalogue of psychiatry web sites.

Link Icon BUBL Links: Psychology

UK based user led organisation for people with bipolar disorder.

Link Icon MDF The Bipolar Organisation

UK based user led organisation for people with bipolar disorder.

Link Icon Mencap

Information about this UK learning disability charity site, links and information about learning disability in general.

Link Icon Mental Health Foundation

US site aimed at promoting research into mental health issues. The site contains extensive information about relevant research but also about mental health issues in general with information on specific disorders.

Link Icon Mental Help Net

Excellent US website containing online mental health information and news for professionals and lay people. Extremely handy glossary, search facility for Psychiatric Journals and handy information centres giving detailed information about particular issues and treatments such as personality disorder and child & adolescent development.

Link Icon MIND

Information about the work of this UK charity, policy briefings, legal articles etc.

Link Icon National Electronic Library for Mental Health

Useful section on child & adolescent mental health including articles and bibliographies on issues relevant to care proceedings.

Link Icon National Electronic Library for Mental Health

Useful section on child & adolescent mental health including articles and bibliographies on issues relevant to care proceedings.

Link Icon Paul Cousins, Forensic Clinical Psychologist

Bradford based Psychologist has put together a really fine website with some useful information about forensic psychology about careers and qualifications in psychology and psychology /law links as well as information about his own clinical and expert career and services.

Link Icon Pearson Assessments

A brief, well-rounded personality measure designed to assess normal personality styles for adults.

Link Icon Psychiatry Online

UK site with interesting articles, great links, online bookshop, list of UK experts etc. See also Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Online at http://www.priory.com/psychild.htm

Link Icon PsychNet

Mental Health, Psychiatry and Psychology online web directory. PsychNet-UK contains over 8000 mental health and psychology resource links. Site also posts some interesting articles, student reading lists (linked to online articles) and some psychology 'games'(some serious and some for fun) and jokes (good ones about social workers!).

Link Icon Psychological Testing Centre online

British Psychological Society site with information about psychological tests.

Link Icon Psycom's Borderline Personality Disorder links

Websites with links to many useful sites on BPD.

Link Icon Royal College of Psychiatrists

As well as information about the work of the RCP, this site contains a number of useful articles on aspects of mental health.

Link Icon The Alzheimer's Society

The UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers

Link Icon Understanding Childhood

Understanding Childhood publishes a series of ldownloadable eaflet and booklets written by child psychotherapists and other professionals on issues affecting the mental health and emotional development of children.

Link Icon Wikipedia on BPD

Great Wikipedia page on Borderline Personality Disorder.

Link Icon Young Minds

UK charity site focussing on young people and mental health and providing information and a helpline.