THE TRIAL THAT NEVER WAS :
NCPA trial abandoned due to threats of violence
The NCPA trial scheduled to begin on 12 September 2016 was to be the first trial heard by the ITNJ and was abandoned because of threats of violence to the Applicants and fear of violent reprisals to witnesses .
[ Editor ’ s note : This article is opinion and commentary by members of the Committee to Support the ITNJ , separate from the formal press releases issued by the ITNJ Court Officers and ITNJ Trustees on previous pages .]
This story begins in 2015 , when the ITNJ was approached by the National Child Protection Alliance ( NCPA ) in Australia to take a case based on the abuse of children ’ s rights in the family courts . The NCPA is a non-profit organisation dedicated to ensuring the protection of and the rights of children and young people from harm and exploitation ; a dedicated team of people seemingly frustrated at the abuses they were witnessing within the family court system .
On their website they have as one of their core objectives :
“ Bringing to political and public attention the right of children to be protected from personal harm and exploitation .”
An attempt was made to bring the case to the Australian Supreme Court , and a hearing was refused . And so it was that the NCPA came to the International Tribunal for Natural Justice ( ITNJ ).
The abuse had gone on long enough — something needed to be done .
At first members of the Committee to Support the ITNJ thought the exposure that bringing this case to trial would generate would force the family court system , and the many good folk within it , to self-correct . After all , what was going on was no secret . Many articles have tried to bring this to light .
One was a brilliant article in The Monthly , an independent publication describing itself as “ One of Australia ’ s boldest voices .” They ran an in-depth article titled ‘ Suffer the Children ’ by investigative journalist Jess Hill .
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