If the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) really have found the social workers who lied on oath in ‘the Hampshire case’, NOT to have committed professional misconduct, should they publish this decision?

by | Jan 17, 2017 | FCReportingWatch

Note in box added 18.1.17 We have since learnt that the Professional Standards Authority automatically reviews all serious decisions by the HCPC on fitness to practice. The issue for the Transparency Project is not the decision itself but the lack of transparency...
What does open justice actually mean?

What does open justice actually mean?

by | Jan 17, 2017 | Comment

The notion that justice must be seen to be done needs little introduction to either a lay or legal audience,  but its familiarity belies an underlying complexity. See, for example,  PNM v Times Newspapers, to be heard by the Supreme Court this week. The court will...