FAMILY LAW: Paternity fraud punishes the blameless*

Husbands have no protection from paternity fraud, thanks to legal rulings by the Family Court and High Court, writes Charles Francis QC.At a public function where Sir Owen Dixon, then Chief Justice of our High Court, was present, a guest remarked to him that he must feel very proud to have administered justice for so many years. Sir Owen replied, a little cynically, “I don’t administer justice, I administer law”.Sir Owen, probably our greatest jurist ever, knew that judges should determine cases…

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