12th April 2025
Big News!
The Stealing of Emily is now live on Smash Media!
Series 1 and 2 are fully written, with Series 3 already underway. This gripping international drama — based on the real-life book series by Martin Newbold — dives deep into the world of secret courts, child safeguarding failures, and the powerful fight of one father against a system built to silence him.
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Description
Synopsis
Title: The Stealing of Emily Genre: Legal Thriller / Psychological Drama / Political Mystery Format: Limited Series or Feature Film Tone: Tense, emotional, investigative, with undertones of dystopian realism Synopsis: When a devoted father seeks answers after his young daughter, Emily, is suddenly removed from his care under suspicious legal circumstances, he uncovers a dark labyrinth of secrecy, manipulation, and institutional betrayal. Set across England and Northern Ireland, The Stealing of Emily exposes the unsettling mechanics of the UK’s family court system — a world governed by silence, where decisions are made behind closed doors, and where truth is not always the goal. As he digs deeper, the father encounters professionals who are either complicit or powerless within a system rife with secret hearings, GDPR violations, and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards applied without scrutiny. Through desperate letters, official complaints, and courtroom confrontations, he pieces together a story far bigger than one family — one that challenges the very heart of justice, ethics, and the definition of safeguarding. Inspired by real events and adapted from the powerful non-fiction book series by Martin Newbold, this drama explores themes of parental rights, identity, institutional gaslighting, and the quiet abuse of power — all through the lens of a father’s unwavering fight for his child. Will he expose the truth before Emily is lost to the system forever?
Creative Vision
While members of the House of Lords do not represent individual constituencies and are not required to take on personal casework in the manner of MPs, there is no constitutional or legal restriction preventing them from raising individual cases in debates, writing to ministers, or pursuing matters of public concern. As noted by the UK Parliament:
“Members of the Lords can put questions to government ministers, take part in debates, and sit on committees which investigate public policy.”
— UK Parliament, Roles and Responsibilities of Members of the House of Lords
https://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-lords-faqs/lords-roles/
It should be noted this is more reason we become a cohort.
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