ABOUT US
OUR FOUNDING HISTORY - JANET WILLICOTT
Janet started her tri-varied career in Mercantile and Labour law (Southern Africa), then onto Private Education (Europe) and teaching students in (China). Settling in the UK, and after a career in Corporate Eventing (Food and Global Event Delivery) - she read full-time Combined Sciences, focusing on Public Health incorporating Law and Education. Janet's son was born with complex health and rare disabilities and was eventually diagnosed with a dual rare disease; the genetic scientific details were published in the American Journal of Human Health 2014.
Her endeavours fighting for her son's right to access appropriate Health Care and Education led her to the European Council of Human Rights. While reading her PhD, Janet founded Normal Like Me Ltd to represent, advocate, and support those with complex health and special educational cases.
Her primary professional focus is Health (all Health) and how education and law interplay with cross-sector accountability and cross-judiciary disciplines. She focuses on Special Educational Needs and All Disabilities, DME (Double Multiple Exceptionality), ASD, Ethnic Minorities, DV Victims, All LGBTQ+ Communities, Rare Diseases, Genetics, Complex and Perplexing Health Difficulties and Fii (Fabricating and Inducing Illness) / Munchhausen's by Proxy.
Since 2020, Janet has focused on Forensic Analysis of Family Court Matters where parents have been wrongly, falsely, or unjustly 'accused' of harming their children as part of her PhD research.
The Chartered Society for Forensic Sciences accepted her Affiliate Membership in January 2022. Janet hopes to establish a brand-new area of Forensic Science (Family Court, Health and Social Care Record-Keeping Analysis.)
UK citizens, including global citizens, are not told of family court matters, as they are (secret courts) and heavily guarded to protect children and vulnerable families. Breach of privacy laws is a criminal offence which can lead to incarceration. However, resources worth hundreds of millions are frivolously wasted on bringing 'unjustly' accused parents (often women/mothers) to court. The taxpayer has a right to know how their resources are wasted on continuing professional incompetence.
Janet has prevented and continues to prevent children from being unjustly removed and argues for their Health to be treated with legal dignity under a duty of care and candour.
Janet's research of SEND Negligence [Specialst Educational Needs and Disability] found an increase in Fii / Munchhausen's by Proxy. Fii/MbP is extremely rare. Fii is a mere theory with no scientific rigour to support the hypothesis. Forensically analysing Family Court legal bundles, where Fii has been recorded as a 'danger statement', offers a unique insight into how the safeguarding process dismissed all possibilities of rare diseases and undiagnosed complex health symptoms. This dismissal leads to family court matters, child removal, harm and miscarriages of justice.
The failure and incompetence of professionals have caused severe and significant lifelong harm; families are traumatised. Often, the wrongfully accused parents commit suicide due to the stressors of injustice.
Janet has a duty to Promote and Protect Health in the UK, EU and Worldwide. She aims to publish her research in 2025 - after 21 years of experience analysing professionals who have 'inadvertently misinterpreted' their cases, which has led to negligence and miscarriages of justice.
When Janet is not at her desk or in court, she can be found in the kitchen, rustling up real food meals for her family and pets, swimming in cold water, participating in extreme sports, reading up on neuro-science and epigenetics, or travelling the world to find exceptional chocolate and sandy beaches.
our founding values, PRINCIPLES & ethics
OUR MISSION
The Justice Initiative shares its mission and values with Normal Like Me, thus ensuring that Legal Health Principles are upheld, including keeping all citizens from free harm. Family Court/Child Protection cases, where parents believe that they have been wrongfully accused of harming their children, will be forensically investigated and analysed, thus laying the grounds for any potential miscarriage of justice. The UK has a Wide Margin of Appreciation, which means justice must be afforded to all.
The rise in Fii, MbP, and FDIA in the Family Court often coincides with ineffectively captured medical or social care records; moreover, evidence placed before the judiciary is often poorly submitted or presented, leading to wrongly interpreted or misleading 'facts' and ultimately erroneous decisions.
Our Specialist Panel will forensically analyse all medical records (historical or other). We will offer specialist differentiated interviews to seek the accuracy of facts and records, and we will undertake detailed health analyses (DNA, Genetics, Health Diagnostics and Research) to support the Judiciary and those who advocate their innocence.
OUR VISION & IMPACT
The Justice Initiative will conduct pre-matter and post-matter casework applying medical forensic analysis and investigative health and educational research on behalf of those parents who find themselves or have found themselves in Social Services Child Protection matters for emotional abuse and neglect or in the Family Courts accused of harming their children, who assert that they have been wrongfully founded to have committed harm.
The Justice Initiative will provide free and impartial investigative and forensic analysis (Reports) as well as access to a pool of Pro Bono Medical, Scientific, Clinical, Therapeutic, Psychological, Educational, Legal, Social Care and Retired Authority Specialists who will collaborate to challenge continuing systemic failings within the applied sectors for the prevention of harm.
Our Values or to establish Facts.
[Denton Hall Legal Services v Fifield in 2006] – is summarised as reflected ‘hearsay’ – and not the factual recording of what happened or was said. The courts place enormous weight upon the evidence in the medical records, but they are not facts. They are someone’s account of what has happened.
“In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.” ~ [United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 (Article 3)]