by reporting watch team | Jun 28, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The final report from the spotlight review of family courts’ handling of domestic abuse has finally been published : Assessing risk of harm to children and parents in private law children cases The report is long and detailed and has generated quite a lot of...
by Guest Post | Jun 28, 2020 | Court of Protection
This post was written by Alex Troup, barrister and mediator at St John’s Chambers, and was first published on the Court of Protection Handbook blog, and is reproduced with kind permission. [Even though COVID-19 may be making everyone rethink how conventional...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 26, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Lancashire County Council v M & Ors (COVID-19 Adjournment Application) [2020] EWFC 43 is another case (like Re C that we wrote on here) where an extraordinarily large number of professionals spent many hours working on a notion that was dismissed by the judge,...
by reporting watch team | Jun 24, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
News just in that the legal blogging pilot (PD36J) has been extended until the end of December. The pilot has been running since 2018 and allows legally qualified legal bloggers to attend private family hearings to aid transparency. Earlier this year the Family...
by Alice T | Jun 24, 2020 | Legal blogging
I’ve just had another go at testing open justice in the family court through legal blogging. The aim remains to identify and work through any barriers created by the move to remote working in response to Covid. The pilot rights and open justice Legal...
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