by Julie Doughty | May 26, 2015 | Cases
This is a post about a case that is only indirectly a family court type case, because of an agreement* made between the parents, on separating in 2009, to try to protect their son from learning about the historic past in a way that would be detrimental to the child....
by Julie Doughty | Apr 28, 2015 | Court of Protection, Transparency News
The Court of Protection was established by the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to make decisions about the care and treatment of people who lack mental capacity because of conditions like dementia, or have learning disabilities or mental health problems. These cases often...
by Julie Doughty | Apr 4, 2015 | Cases, Transparency News
(‘Organic’ – characterised by gradual or natural development – OED) So say the Court of Appeal, in a judgment given in a case called Re C (A Child) on 24 March; the full judgment has not yet been published. The judges in this case commented that...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
This report was published this week on behalf of a group chaired by two High Court judges, Mr Justice Hayden and Ms Justice Russell. What does it have to do with transparency? Well, this (paragraph 34): ‘The need for greater transparency has been a leitmotif of recent...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 8, 2015 | Cases
This is an updated version of the original post last week which disappeared during a period of site maintenance. We were rather surprised by this story in the Daily Mail last week which consisted of a perfectly reasonable selection of quotations from a Court of Appeal...
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