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Can secret recordings be used as evidence in court?

Can secret recordings be used as evidence in court?

If you record a meeting or conversation about your children, without people being aware you’re recording them, can you then produce and rely on that recording as part of your evidence to a family court? This is a question that has been hanging around for several years...

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Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup: April 2025

Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup: April 2025

Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other transparency news.  MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW, TRANSPARENCY etc The BBC reported the sad...

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Happy Tenth Birthday to TP!

Happy Tenth Birthday to TP!

In fact, like the Queen, The Transparency Project has two birthdays. One in early 2014, when we emerged from the primordial online soup into a loose multi-cellular organism, and one when we were officially formed as a charity on 29 April 2015, with charitable...

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Completing care proceedings in less than 26 weeks

Completing care proceedings in less than 26 weeks

I went to Cardiff Family Court as a legal blogger in two care cases this week. Reporting on them might give an inkling into how the most recent ‘refocus’ on the Public Law Outline (PLO) 26 weeks time limit is working out in the real world. We wrote about the refocus...

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