by Julie D | Apr 12, 2016 | Cases, Notorious
BY JUDITH TOWNEND. ORIGINALLY POSTED AT THE JUSTICE GAP. Thanks to The Justice Gap for permision to re-post here. Unlike the two children who murdered the toddler James Bulger in 1993, and the teenage boy who killed secondary school teacher Ann Maguire in 2014, the...
by Julie D | Mar 13, 2016 | Cases, Comment
Family courts hit the mainstream news headlines this week. Here is a brief summary of transparency related matters. Dr Waney Squier and expertise on non-accidental head injuries and babies The esoteric subject of an expert witness in the family courts came up, because...
by Julie D | Feb 13, 2016 | Comment
As Paul Magrath noted lasted week, The Spectator published this article by Lara Prendergast on 6 February : Beware the baby-snatchers. He explained the misrepresentation of family court reporting in this story. Another unsubstantiated claim made by Lara Prendergast...
by Julie D | Jan 13, 2016 | Cases
The Guardian and the Whitby Gazette have featured a complaint by ‘a former Lib Dem MP’ about a family court judgment in which the judge, HHJ Anderson, specifically explains that she will not name the local authority or the social workers involved. The...
by Julie D | Nov 25, 2015 | Comment, Court of Protection, Transparency News
This is a guest post by Lucy Series. An extended version of this post appears on The Small Places blog. The Court of Protection has just announced its first pilot project: on transparency. The pilot project will reverse the presumption in the Court of Protection...
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