Reporting restrictions in the criminal courts

Guidelines on Reporting Restrictions in the Criminal Courts issued jointly by the Judiciary, the News Media Association, the Society of Editors and the Medial Lawyers Association have now been revised, as of May 2016. You can download the full PDF here. We have now...

Child Protection Conference 2016 – presentations

With apologies for the delay, here are the available presentations from the Child Protection Conference on 3 June 2016. We have also recently published a transcript of the panel discussion that took place on the day, which you can find here. Andy Bilson : Presentation...

Panel Discussions at CPConf2016 – where do we go from here?

Panel Discussion CPConf2016  3rd June 2016 This is a partial transcript typed up by Sarah Phillimore from the audio recording of the discussion at the end of CPConf2016 which took place at Birmingham on June 3rd 2016. Some parts are incomplete as the recording was not...

Prison threat for “gran jailed over a hug”

New prison threat for gran who was jailed over a hug:  Pensioner could be locked up again after helping her granddaughter to escape from a care home Court order prevents contact between Kathleen Danby and granddaughter In 2014 Mrs Danby, 74, was sent to jail after...