The story of barrister Bruce Hyman and how he is facing jail for perverting the course of justice after trying to effectively 'frame' a father fighting to get access to his children is a sad tale.
He sent the father an e-mail using the Familes Need Fathers logo which the unwitting father then used to aid his case for custody. Buce Hyman was acting for the mother. The full story is here (link).
No-one quite knows what the motive was. However, what it does say is culturally in the UK, fathers are easy targets. I suspect Hyman set the father up because he thought that no-one would believe the father and therefore could get away it.
He was right except it was because of the father and his investigation that it transpired that it was Hyman who had sent him the e-mail.
It just confirms that fathers are whipping boys.
Bruce Hyman asked for costs of £11,000 to be awarded against the father in the same hearing that he committed his perversion of the ocourse of justice, at the end, as is usual. If he had succeeded, the father, who was acting as a litigant in person, would have faced a huge legal bill. Under normal circumstances, the mother, who is reported as being an old friend of Hyman, would have had to pay. Put two and two and you have a motive. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bruce_Hyman#A_bit_more_discussion_about_the_case
Posted by: Matthew Stannard | Monday, 03 September 2007 at 22:24