Justice Fern Fisher-Brandveen of State Supreme Court, the administrative judge for Housing Court, sees no marked increase in frivolous proceedings.
There has also been a 130% increase in care proceedings and a 21% increase in the number of children in the care of local councils over the same period.
As after Climbié, there is anecdotal evidence of an increase in care proceedings, and Haringey, already struggling with recruitment, has had to appeal for social workers from other London boroughs "to try and cover Section 47 investigations, which are urgent investigations into potential abuse of children".
Helen Clark, the administrator of the UN Development Programme, said the meeting had left her feeling quite positive – not least because of the increasing role in proceedings of countries such as the "Mints" (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey).
But in August, the group pointed to "an expected increase in detention and removal proceedings due to the current Administration's expanded enforcement priorities" and urged the federal government to create a national public defender system in immigration courts.
The Republican National Convention opened at around 2 P.M. this afternoon, with Reince Priebus banging a gavel a few times, pronouncing that, pursuant to Party rules, it had begun; setting into motion a clock meant to mark the increase in the national debt during the proceedings; and then a few more bangs, and it was over for the day, before the clock had a chance to hit six digits.
The results, reported 18 March 2008 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that scaling up corn production to meet the 15-billion-gallon goal would increase nitrogen loading in the Dead Zone by 10 18%.
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