Mr Justice Ormrod

Ormrod, in the case of Wachtel v. Wachtel in the Family Division, held that there should be a 'no-fault' principle applied to assets distribution.

Here is an extract from the All England Law Reports [1973] 1 AER 113 FD which illustrates the thinking :

As a most significant example of judges’ degeneracy, we can refer to another Ormrod decision. This judge was involved in the introduction of ‘no-fault’ divorce. He is quoted (in section 4.22 of Making Contact Work proposals made in 2001 from the Children Act Advisory Committee of the Lord Chancellor's Dept) as stating that a "committal order would not conceivably be in the best interests of the children … [as] … their father would be branded in their eyes as the man who had put their mother in prison". However he fails to mention that such a consideration of blame could be made by children :

• to the mother who broke up the marriage (as is usually the case) and so was responsible for the situation leading to court action
• to the mother who caused the break-up of a stable family unit
• to the mother who practices Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) i.e. poisoning the children’s minds against the father, in order to separate them from their father
• with regard to any criminal proceedings against a parent which may result in a prison sentence, e.g. of burglary or theft, when the outcomes of the misbehaviour to the victim are usually far less serious than in divorce for a wronged party.

Further, Ormrod does not mention :

• that it is judges, operating within the law, who would "put their mother in prison" and should be seen to do so for good reason
• the degenerate effect on children’s moral outlook, if they witness the rewarding of misbehaviour in marriage on the part of one parent, as is the case with mothers at present
• the effect that without sanctions fathers are left defenceless.

It is considered that Ormrod has used arguments, on an extremely selective basis, as part of the introduction of ‘no-fault’ divorce and the disenfranchisement of fathers.

The simple fact, which judges prefer to ignore, is that without sanctions, mothers will continue to misbehave as they currently do.

Because of these considerations, no policy making body should accept the views of these degenerate judges, who have forfeited any right of respect for their opinions.

Comment : thank goodness he's dead.