Government Rejects Calls for Full Review of Melanie Gill’s Family Court Cases

The government and judiciary rejected calls for a full review of family court cases involving unregulated psychologist Melanie Gill, whose evidence has been linked to children being removed from their mothers. The incoming Victims’ Commissioner had called the use of unregulated experts a “national scandal” on a par with the Post Office injustice, but officials said a wholesale review would require analysis of hundreds of thousands of paper-based files and would not be a proportionate response. The story set the stage for the landmark judicial intervention that would follow the next month, and is essential context for any practitioner instructing psychology experts in children proceedings.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

28th January 2026