Cats, genies and stable doors.

by | Sep 30, 2014 | Comment

Locking the stable door after the horse has bolted There are many metaphors which are applicable in this situation. Cats that are out of bags, genies that are out of their bottles etc, etc. What the metaphors share is recognition of the futility of trying to act after...

Accessible Judgments

by | Sep 16, 2014 | Project

More family judgments than ever before are being made available to the public, primarily through BAILII. But sending a judgment to BAILLI doesn’t in itself mean that the public are better informed or that they are able to access the information held on that site...

Is ‘transparency’ the same as ‘openness’?

by | Sep 16, 2014 | Project

The short answer is ‘No’. Some years ago, I noticed that the consultation documents on access to family courts tended to use these two terms interchangeably and I wondered if transparency was just a fashionable word for openness. I looked into it and...

BAILII (Judgments)

by | Sep 12, 2014 | Resources

BAILII, the British and Irish Legal Information Agency, is a charity which makes judgments in family (and other) cases freely available for public use. Family Division (High Court) Judgments Family Court Judgments (High Court Judges) Family Court Judgments (Other...