by Lucy R | Aug 30, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
On Friday I took the opportunity to try my hand at a spot more legal blogging. It was the last ‘working’ day before the end of my staycation, and I was somewhat ambivalent about using it up on this busman’s holiday – but in the end decided I was getting rusty, and I’d...
by Paul M | Aug 25, 2020 | Consultations, Transparency News, Trends
The Lord Chief Justice called it “the biggest pilot project that the justice system has ever seen” and said “there will be no going back to February 2020”. Remote court hearings would have come sooner or later, but thanks to Covid-19 they came at us fast, in March...
by Lucy R | Aug 19, 2020 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Trends
As the summer has worn on, clouds have been gathering. In exchanges with other Transparency Project team members, I’ve been threatening to write a rather sullen blog post about transparency for a few weeks, and have finally been gathering my thoughts on the bow of our...
by Guest Post | Aug 13, 2020 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Melanie Newman is a freelance journalist. Previously a reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, she has also worked for BBC Newsnight and the Victoria Derbyshire Programme. She writes for the British Medical Journal and is a regular contributor to the Law...
by Lucy R | Aug 9, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Gibbs v Gibbs (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 2134 is a rather extraordinary judgment. You’ll notice the names are incorporated in the description of the case – that is for two reasons. Firstly, the judgment relates to a committal hearing, which are always held in public...
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