Protest at Psychologist's office Auckland 7th Jan 2003

At the beginning of 2003, Union of Fathers protesters were back in action outside the office of psychologists Gail Ratcliffe and Suzanne Blackwell. 

In April 2002 Ms Ratcliffe pioneered the first successful use of the so-called battered woman's syndrome defence in a NZ court when she appeared as an expert witness. A Whangarei woman was found not guilty of murdering her husband by stabbing him in the heart with a kitchen knife. Ratcliffe claimed Stephens was acting in self defence and was suffering from suffered from post traumatic stress disorder as a result of her relationship.

Also attending the demonstration were several parents who have lost contact with their children following negative 29A psychological reports made by Suzanne Blackwell for the Family Court. 

There was no reaction from inside - the inhabitants were presumably on holiday enjoying their ill-gotten gains from their lucrative profession.

People driving up College Hill couldn't miss the protest.

Across the road, some of the neighbours enthusiastically joined in:

Protesters visited Ratcliffe and Blackwell previously on February 14th 2002