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Abbasi – the Supreme Court finally hands down judgment on appeal about injunctions made to protect the identity of hospital staff providing end of life care
A significant judgment about transparency was handed down by the Supreme Court this week - Abbasi and another v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2025] UKSC 15. The case of Abbasi has been very long running, as has the case of Haastrup that has...
Exhumation where father’s coercive control undermined decision on place of burial
This is a guest post by Frank Cranmer, reposted from the Law & Religion UK blog, about a matter of ecclesiastical law which overlaps with family law. It concerns the grant of a faculty, which is an order granted by the Consistory Court for a particular Church of...
The Intermediaries Appeal – what does it tell us?
An appeal judgment has just landed in our inboxes on the correct approach to the use of intermediaries in care proceedings: Re M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440. We wrote a post a couple of weeks ago when we became aware that this appeal was in the...
Transparency Orders – but can a parent tell their own story?
Since January the transparency order is 'a thing', in that courts will usually make one in every case where a reporter attends a hearing. Such orders allow the anonymised reporting of a hearing or a case by the media. But what about the parents? Does it allow them to...
SECTION 12 – YET MORE CONFUSION
This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division. On 2 April 2025 Harris J handed down her reserved judgment in M v F and C [2025] EWHC 801 (Fam). The case had first come to public attention when the hearing on 20 February 2025 was...
Transparency Orders – tool or straight jacket?
[Update 19 Apr 2025: In light of the judgment in Abbasi delivered by the Supreme Court this week, we've slightly adjusted the wording in a couple of places (shown in italics and square brackets)]. In a recent interesting judgment hiding behind the nondescript title of...
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