by Julie Doughty | Aug 30, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
‘Change of residence’ in the context of a child arrangements order (a reform that was supposed to get rid of the ‘win-lose’ concept of residence and contact before 2014) is quite a cold, technical term to describe a child having to move from...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 13, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Three years ago, I wrote a blog post, ‘Can an adoption order be undone?’ The answer was, only in very exceptional circumstances. A new High Court judgment, published last week, ZH v HS & others [2019] EWHC 2190, has not broken any new ground, but gives...
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...
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...
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...
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