By oracknows on November 11, 2015.
I ve used my current pseudonym since at least the late 1990s, first on Usenet and then on the first incarnation of this blog. Not surprisingly in retrospect (although it surprised me at the time), people who didn t like me began trying back in the 1990s to unmask me. It began with Holocaust deniers. No, I m not trying to Godwin this post; it really did begin with Holocaust deniers because, as longtime readers know, my gateway drug to skepticism was refuting the lies and misinformation of Holocaust deniers. So, round about the turn of the millennium, a group of Holocaust deniers managed to figure out who I was, because I had been naive and careless enough to have left crumbs of information on Usenet a couple of years before linking Orac to my real name. As a result, hilariously (in retrospect because I didn t quite find it so hilarious at the time) some neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers (but I repeat myself) circulated a list of peopl
M v H ( private law vaccination) [2020] EWFC 93
MacDonald J granted a specific issue order authorising the administration of vaccinations to two children, ages 6 and 4 in accordance with the NHS vaccination schedule. In doing so he considered the role of the court in this area, the application of the principles set out in Re H (A Child: Parental Responsibility: Vaccination) [2020] EWCA Civ 664 in private law disputes, the use of expert evidence and the approach to proportionality under Article 8.
There was a background private law dispute which was being dealt with by a district judge where, following a fact-finding hearing there had been a series of hearings to re-establish the children spending time with the father. A final hearing was listed on 21 December 2020. The father s original application had included an application for a specific issue order on MMR vaccination but that was amended to encompass all the normal childhood vaccinations. The DJ (in liaison with the