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The Intermediaries Appeal – what does it tell us?

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...

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Transparency Orders – but can a parent tell their own story?

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...

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SECTION 12 – YET MORE CONFUSION

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...

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Transparency Orders – tool or straight jacket?

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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