Tammy Law, Barrister and Solicitor
151 Bloor St. W., Suite 604 M5S 1S4 Toronto, ON, Canada

@DavidMillerLaw @petersankoff Oooh. Good idea!!

@DavidMillerLaw @Lightninglaw When you manage it let me know.

RT @DavidMillerLaw: My absolute favorite COVID-19 quote from a judge so far comes from a domestic case: "Parenting is an essential service" Now we just need this quote to be applied in child protection cases. https://t.co/d2bqNTE0Yc

What a wonderful article. https://t.co/PDsdwXbY2b

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@afixedaddress Congratulations! You are doing such important work. We need more reporters to shine a light on what happens in the child welfare system.

This is not acceptable. Release the information. https://t.co/jfrBebsse5

RT @lornamyates73: Case of the year: parenting is an essential service per McGee J. https://t.co/8ZnhsKrYF3

RT @cancivlib: We agree that public health measures shouldnt (and dont) require sacrificing the well-being of families. See our letter to the Ontario government: https://t.co/nEikat450o https://t.co/YMnUJWhJeL

RT @cancivlib: We agree that public health measures shouldn't (and don't) require sacrificing the well-being of families. See our letter to the Ontario government: https://t.co/nEikat450o https://t.co/YMnUJWhJeL

RT @KateKehoe1: Please read this letter from the @cancivlib on the need for a consistent, evidence-based and Charter-compliant approach to access visits between parents and children in the Ontario child welfare system. https://t.co/gRbUyWVY5N

RT @afixedaddress: I find myself commenting more and more on child welfare in Ontario. I do so based on court documents, interviews with parents who lost kids in the system and formal reports that list failure after failure. When do we stop calling it failures if its been happening for decades? https://t.co/8eoINl3qyn

Open letter re in person access visits between children and parents involved with CAS. https://t.co/cPr5khQk2L

RT @LegalAidOntario: Anyone with a family law matter can now get up to 20 minutes of free legal advice and information from a duty counsel lawyer. Call us at 1-800-668-8258.

@carmrunco Sigh.....

I want to note the important work defence lawyers, child protection, and family lawyers have been doing. Its nice to feel good. But proper pay is what keeps the lights running and staff employed. Maybe our govt can remember this when it considers its cuts to @LegalAidOntario https://t.co/lSg1Qq8z0N

RT @KateKehoe1: Great decision by Justice Bill Sullivan returning children to their mothers care. Note his comments about the Charter in the time of COVID19. https://t.co/37l6GpoU3L https://t.co/SAgod71NPm

@C_Bo_74 @KateKehoe1 @SeanRobichaud Whereas I recently argued that it is unclear how the childs injuries would lead to more serious complications from covid and that it is unclear child shouldnt have access with parents who are social distancing....

Ironic how the west who had benefited greatly from Hong Kong now offers words but not much else. https://t.co/UCDFRU4LOf

RT @LdnOntFamilyLaw: @KateKehoe1 @SeanRobichaud Courts have been tolerating it too. Family Branch is releasing decisions stating that COVID-19 on its own is not a carte blanche reason to suspend face-to-face access for weekend parents, while allowing societies to impose blanket bans on face-to-face visits for parents & kin.

RT @KateKehoe1: @SeanRobichaud On the one hand, theres no evidence prisoners are at risk so God forbid we let them out. On the other hand, Childrens aid societies are imposing blanket policies preventing children from seeing their parents. One state agency vs another. Totally at odds.

RT @momtoemma1: And meanwhile here in child protection court in Ontario- not so much- over here access between child and parents not of value; over here parents are inherently bad (or stupid) or ust will never get it- over here acccess is just a harmful pain in the .... https://t.co/YwQGHYBr5P

RT @melissakchan: Hong Kong going after its lawyers going after rule of law. Like in China and elsewhere, authoritarian states go after lawyers. I know in America theyre not well-regarded, but start worrying whenever a country starts going after its lawyers.

@UBCDrBenCh Me too. PTSD just as an overseas observer.

This is gonna be me. For sure. https://t.co/D5Qxu7eadS

The comments on this.... tech geek heaven! :D https://t.co/ZxC6DHHZKb

@lornamyates73 Mine was the raising hands. Haha

@DavidMillerLaw @nehachughlaw @APTNNews Thank you @DavidMillerLaw! We at the @OACPLprovincial fully support this statement.

This to me appears to be key. We have just thrown out decades of caselaw about caution, evidence, and the importance of interim access because of fear and emotion about this pandemic. https://t.co/SDq2aLP7Sc

RT @KateKehoe1: I have read the OCJ decision in the case involving the 6 mo old. As David Miller says in this article, Justice Zisman harshly criticized the family members for wanting the parent-child access to continue. She also made what I believe to be very problematic findings about the /1 https://t.co/pxzwCQqDJj

Thank you @afixedaddress for writing about this issue, which is vitally important to families receiving intervention from child welfare in this province.

When we stop children from having meaningful relationships with their parents for a lengthy period of time, we are harming those children. /end

He said the discriminatory approach disproportionately affects Indigenous families, Black families, racialized families and poor families: Who have historically been unfairly targeted and overrepresented in the child protection justice system. /3

...Only in a child protection court would a parent be criticized for having the audacity to ask to see their children, said Miller, who is also the treasurer of the Ontario Association of Child Protection Lawyers. /2

The court criticized the parents and the grandparents for requesting extensive in-person access, stating that by making the request, they were demonstrating they dont understand the COVID-19 risk. There has been no such criticism in cases involving separated families.../1 https://t.co/Zh8yiBQEVv

"All this is simply one more manifestation of how child welfare really views families: essentially subhuman. The message is clear: Why should we sacrifice ourselves for those rotten, no-good parents? After all, look what they did to their kids." https://t.co/FOHu68TN8c

@pilch_mira @NCCPR Lets not talk about it. Im still white hot with rage.

Lets repeat this for childrens aid societies in Ontario. https://t.co/b8VLDVngul