by Julie D | Dec 5, 2022 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch
The House of Lords set up a parliamentary post-legislative scrutiny committee in January 2022 to inquire into the effectiveness of the Children and Families Act 2014. One of the several criticisms that appear in the committee’s report (published today) is the delay in...
by Julie D | Nov 27, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This blog post will not go into detail about the distressing history of five year old Logan Mwangi, with which we are all too familiar through media coverage of the trial of the three people who were responsible for his death. An impression had been given at that time...
by Julie D | Oct 26, 2022 | Events, Resources
‘A good law gone bad’ is how the Hague Convention on International Abduction was described in a session organised by the Filia Hague Mothers project at an international feminist conference held in Cardiff over the weekend. The Convention was drafted in...
by Julie D | Oct 10, 2022 | Comment, Trends
I’ve been working in and around family and child law for more than 30 years, during which several different UK governments and departments have discovered family mediation, as if the first time. ‘Mediation is quicker, cheaper, less stressful, more...
by Julie D | Sep 25, 2022 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
After many months – getting on for a year – of The Transparency Project continually asking for more transparent publication of the progress of the President’s Transparency Implementation Group (TIG) we’re pleased to have been notified of a new...
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