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How do family courts use ‘barring orders’?

by Julie Doughty | Jun 9, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

One of the tasks of the new review of family courts and domestic abuse announced last month by the MoJ is to examine courts’ use of barring orders. (By the way, we don’t know when the three months for the review starts, although we are now three weeks in from...
Do social workers have a duty of care to protect children of local authority tenants?

Do social workers have a duty of care to protect children of local authority tenants?

by Julie Doughty | Jun 6, 2019 | Cases, Explanation

You can tell this was likely to be an important case because there are five ‘interverners’ – organisations that have an interest, in principle, in the outcome – in this particular case, from a human rights and children’s rights perspective. The applicants were two...

Clifford Bellamy takes up role as patron of The Transparency Project

by Julie Doughty | Mar 3, 2019 | Transparency News

We are very pleased to announce that Clifford Bellamy, who retired as the Designated Family Judge for Derby last month, has agreed to act as a patron of The Transparency Project*. We were sorry when we learned of Judge Bellamy’s imminent retirement, as he has been an...
Legal blogging – a day in Cardiff Family Court

Legal blogging – a day in Cardiff Family Court

by Julie Doughty | Jan 14, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

Earlier this month, I had my first opportunity to attend the Family Court under the legal blogging pilot, Practice Direction 36J. I’d had some correspondence with the judges in the court nearest to me, Cardiff (which hears cases from numerous local authority areas in...
Was the risk really bad enough to justify the remedy?

Was the risk really bad enough to justify the remedy?

by Julie Doughty | Jan 3, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This question was asked by Lord Justice Peter Jackson in a judgment reported last month,  Re F (A Child: Placement Order: Proportionality) [2018] EWCA Civ 2761 The risk here was of future significant harm and the remedy was a closed adoption.  However, this...
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