Global Birth Legal Casebook

Paul Golden is an International Maternity & Neonatal Clinical & Legal Specialist.

Paul trained, qualified and practised in law focusing on employment, regulatory and then human rights laws.  His postgraduate legal work was in meditation, initially for families working for The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and then expanding advocacy, mediation and adjudication to other areas. 

Paul Golden has many decades of experience in attending court, (including as a student of Lord Denning (Master of Rolls) in London).  He advocates, and mediates cases including supporting others taking their own cases and appeals. 

Paul has worked for over thirty years as an International Independent Midwife working with Home birth, hospitals, neonatal feeding specialist (tongue tie release practitioner), giving support and report writing to help families, hospitals, organisations and national and international government bodies with respect to all things maternal and neonatal healthcare.

My aim is to highlight what goes wrong in wrongful convictions. How they come into existence and what can be done about them.  

This book includes how to defend actively rather than passively trusting that the law requires the prosecution to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt when the reality is not so simple. 

We will look at the wrongs by individuals that led to the wrongful conviction in this case of Lucy Letby and others.  How and why these wrongs often go unchallenged and what can be done to challenge them.  This includes actions in civil and criminal courts, professional regulation and actions with or against other organisations that ought to have accountability.

There is no desire to list wrongs and over focus on them as if languishing and bemoaning some terrible victim tragedies. There is a real wish for us all to learn how to stand up for our rights so that others, (including next generations) will enjoy the rights and freedoms in reality that we all deserve. 

A wrongful conviction is an opportunity to shine a light on any failing systems and their individuals who either contribute to or allow these wrongs.

Paul Golden 2025

Parents have a right to choose 

how and where to birth

 (and with whom)

Article 8 UNCHR  Anna Ternovszky v Hungary 2012 ECHR