by Julie Doughty | Sep 21, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Comment
In a judgment published on Bailii last week, called H v A (No.2), Mr Justice MacDonald had to consider a very risky situation that had potentially arisen because of the current Family Court guidance about publishing judgments. This case illustrates an interesting...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 30, 2015 | Cases
In today’s Telegraph, Christopher Booker has written about a case where care and placement orders for two children were made in Rhyl Family Court in April 2014. You can read the judgment on Bailii here. In April, HHJ Gareth Jones said in his judgment: ‘The...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 25, 2015 | Comment
A particularly irritating example of opaque reporting came up under #familylaw on twitter yesterday. According to this story in the Telegraph, Child whose parents played too many video games ‘removed from family home’ Social Services said to have believed...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 6, 2015 | Cases, Transparency News
This has been pretty horrible week for anyone interested in children’s services and family justice, what with the closure of BAAF and the controversy around Kids Company. And yet more criticism of social workers… Although I’m all for transparency,...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 17, 2015 | Comment
Or – Will we ever have a responsible, regulated press in the UK? Here at the Transparency Project, we are always conscious of the need to balance the interests of freedom of expression with privacy and the public with private interests. These principles were...
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