Fathers 4 Justice target law firm

MEMBERS of the Bristol-based Fathers 4 Justice group stormed the offices of a law firm today to protest against the legal system.

The group of nine, which included two women supporters from the Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) sub-group The Purple Hearts, dressed in white boiler suits to target solicitors Foster and Partners in Corn Street this afternoon.

Seven angry fathers stormed the offices while the two women waved banners outside the building adjacent to St Nicholas Market.

The group waved placards and sounded blow horns in the law firm's office.

A gold painted petrol can was also handed to the firm, which a spokesman for the group said "signified the way the law firm was fuelling the misery of thousands of children who were being deprived of contact".

The protest, which started at 2.15pm, was organised with the stated aim "to decontaminate family law" and to highlight the continuing campaign by Fathers 4 Justice.

A spokesman for the group, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said:
"Today marks the start of a summer of civil disobedience in Bristol, which the group will be driving as a support to the national campaign. The protest today is to highlight the continual lack of progress made by the Government to change this country's archaic family law.

"We will not stand by and allow this situation to continue unchallenged."
Paul Foster, from Foster and Partners, who is also a member of the Children Panel Higher Courts Advocate, declined to make a comment to the Evening Post about the protest at his Corn Street office.

In March this year, Bristol members of F4J stormed the offices of solicitors Gregg Latchams Quinn in Queens Square.

They were also dressed in white boiler suits, which they said "symbolised a decontamination of the law system".