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Child Abduction During the Covid Pandemic
Written by a practising barrister of more than four decades, this book tells and analyses the stories in relation to the abduction of children during the Covid 19 Pandemic. The issues in the cases are based on real life stories of families and their disputes arising out of the breakdown of their relationships and abduction of children in certain circumstances. However, the names are fictitious, and I have protected the anonymity of the parties’ identities, and their real-life stories with fictional situations rather than the actual stories. Any resemblance to the people either living or dead are purely unintentional. The countries involved could not be anonymized because the laws are applied and set out in the court orders based on the jurisdiction of the geographical areas of the country where the parties reside.
This book outlines the procedure to deal with urgent applications where necessary in such cases. The stories and court orders predominantly deal with the cases during the pandemic. I have included certain scenarios and court orders pre-pandemic for the reader to understand the difference between the court orders pre-pandemic and post- pandemic. This book also deals with relevant family law statutes and family law Practice Directions to inform the reader that such cases could not be dealt with in isolation. I have also dealt with a brief historical introduction to the evolution of matrimonial legislation where necessary. I hope the readers will find the book interesting.
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The Temp Is It
Why are we all expected to do something to make money?
Why must we work?
There must be a better way.
This book is a tale of a less-than-ordinary life that some choose to lead.
This is an everyman struggle set in the 1980s. Mrs T is in number 10, it is grim up north, and there is not a full job to be found. Simon therefore sets off on the temp trail. This is a true tale of trying to find some worthwhile work and something more than a meagre payslip.
These are the jobs no one wants, and you are the misfit no one wants. If there is a positive, it is that the time spent in each is mercifully short.
Will the sun come out along the way? Who knows?
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Live Donkey, Dead Lion
On August 6, 1914, Able Seaman Timothy McCarthy departs Plymouth onboard Endurance, worried that he is missing the great adventure of war. By the following January, Tim is embroiled in his own adventure, trapped in ice, facing the crushing loss of his ship, forced to live for months on an ever-shrinking ice floe, and undertaking two desperate attempts to reach safety onboard the unseaworthy James Caird. Tim endures all of this and more, all while being pitted against the most extreme weather conditions, with dwindling food supplies, inadequate clothing and protection, and no means of communication with the rest of the world.
Within three weeks of his return to Britain, Tim is belatedly given his opportunity to join the war effort. Onboard the SS Narragansett, Tim again faces many of the ordeals he has so recently survived, this time with the added threat of his fellow mariners turned enemy. This is Tim’s story as a Live Donkey, Dead Lion.
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'One-Take Weller'
In 1971, Al Weller, 25, married with a young daughter, is content with his blue-collar life. Though skilled in commercial art, he prefers manual labour and truck driving, enjoying pints with mates after work.
A chance suggestion from his friend ‘Lawse’ leads Al to moonlight as an ‘ad face’ (advertising model). For nine months, he juggles an odd double life - delivering dairy products to posh hotels while posing for knitting patterns and romance magazines.
Al’s world turns upside down when his face suddenly appears on deodorant posters plastered across London’s buses and Underground. This unexpected fame catapults him into a new reality, challenging his comfortable working-class existence.
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Happiness, My Best Friend
Happiness at the right time.
Some of us claim you are just a decoy.
And yet,You would be fully enjoyed
By the one who loves simplicity,
The one who keeps his head above water,
And fully regains one’s responsibility.You are widely opened,
To lovers of nature.You are such a slide,
A stunning mix of flavors.You are also known as: Friendship, intimacy, hilarity, joy, life, bliss.
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Closed Curtains
Under the blushing Danish skies, a girl walks hand in hand with her newfound love, smiling on the kissing bridge of Copenhagen. The water reflects the hues of the setting sun, carrying the pink hints of a Danish summer. As birds find their way home, so do the cycles carry happy faces back home. A significant Sakura blooming in its prime in the background, as the evening takes a romantic leap into the arms of night.
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The Jungle Festival
This is a story of how a young lion’s birth liberates others’ lives in the jungle kingdom. Shumba was born into the animal kingdom, but unfortunately, his father was killed while on a mission to unite the animals in the kingdom. The birth of Shumba was followed with unusual happiness from his mother, being a male cub, and this led to a celebration party being conducted for him. In contrast, amid the party, the king in another kingdom came just to disrupt the party, but both the mother and the priest couldn’t do anything about it.While this continued, Shumba made up his mind to fight for retribution and he was trained by Mathata, they fixed the date for the jungle festival and Shumba was fully fortified with necessary tactics, the day came, and they fought. Was Shumba able to overcome? We shall see in the book. This book will teach you the power of resilience, not giving up, and working towards achieving your goal.
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What’s That Mummy?
A story of a little boy frightened to go to bed. Everywhere he looks, something is lurking or hiding. Is the house full of monsters and ghosts?
Perhaps it’s just his imagination. Can Mummy help to ease his fears?
Let’s read on to find out.
A lovely story perfect for children scared of the dark or strange noises, showing them that there is nothing to fear, because home is a safe place.
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Jake and the Wishful Wizard
Jake spends his days researching and waiting for bedtime so that he can get back to the adventure that he has left the night before or to begin his new nighttime adventure. This time he has travelled back in time to a medieval town where he meets a young boy called Marlin. Marlin believes he is a wizard and one of Jakes best friends.
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In the Spine of Vana
This is the third book in his open-ended fantasy series and a continuation of his first two books, Vorclaw and Sojourns in Vana. Leif Foehammer, the adopted elf, begins to understand General Blackpool’s rise to power, but his answers may lie with his former vampire lover, the arch-goblin ruler, Queen Ooktha! Leif’s brother Bjorn seeks solitude, struggling to come to terms with Leif’s connection to the vampiress, the very creature that killed their mother! Meanwhile, Dru Foehammer rises in status, becoming the Commander of the Sedgedunum City Watch, while his mentor, the assassin Damon Crag, begins building his own empire as the Shadow Company overlord of Sedgedunum. Betrayal, attacks in the frontier, and new characters shed doubt on General Blackpool’s legitimacy as ruler of Vorclaw. To help unravel it all, Leif may have to travel back into the mountain range known as The Spine of Vana!
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Whittling our Niche
He had become an Australian, indistinguishable from the real thing, returning to England and his Cornish boyhood world before discovering the truth of his existence.
“I recall the exact moment. The birth certificate extract showed my unique quartet of Christian names. Strangely, the names next to MOTHER were a replica of the trio I recollected for my elder sister, 25 years my senior. Birthplace correct. Against FATHER was scrawled a single word: unknown. There, at the age of 26, I came to know I was a bastard!”
From these beginnings Gregory charts the story of a life that roams across four continents, encompasses three careers, and spans five decades. At times he’s deep in thought, searching for the meaning of existence; at others, cartwheeling across Australia or India with a sometimes ragtag bunch of best friends and associates.
It’s an exhilarating, quite unique piece of writing: an enthralling story which embodies a dry sense of humour stemming from the author’s British and Australian roots. But then at times it’s the reverse, with first-hand accounts from the poorest areas of Kenya, alongside thoughts of protective spiritual auras that might govern our existence.
But considering our miniscule place in a mega-universe, are any of our stories worth telling anyway? This is the question that Gregory deliberates within the final chapter… and one that the reader may fathom their answer to from reading this rather remarkable and informative book.
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Sometimes Daddy Gets It Wrong
Our daddy thinks he’s cool and smart; he says he’s never wrong,
It’s time to set the record straight; we’ve waited far too long.
We’re always watching carefully when things don’t go so well,
We’ve kept a list of his mistakes, and now we want to tell.
This is the story of a daddy who messes up sometimes, told by his children who notice EVERY mistake he makes.
In the house, in the car and even on the school run.
There seems to be no limit to the number of places where he can mess things up.
Despite everything, they love him dearly. It's not easy being a dad!
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