by Lucy R | May 12, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We noticed two cases in which judgments were published yesterday, the very day that the President’s Transparency Review call for evidence closed – each deals with the question of whether a local authority who had brought care proceedings should be named, and...
by Lucy R | May 11, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division’s Transparency Review Panel put out a call for evidence in the early months of the year, before Covid-19 darkened our doors. Today the several-times-extended deadline for that call for evidence fell due. The Transparency...
by Lucy R | May 7, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Following on from our Alphabet Soup post about Re A and Re B (and our earlier post about Re P), there are two new remote hearing related judgments out : A Local Authority v Mother & Ors [2020] EWHC 1086 (Fam) and Re Q [2020] EWHC 1109 (Fam). As with A and B,...
by Lucy R | May 4, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Although the remote family justice soup has of late been a right old ‘pea souper’, with some difficult to digest lumps of guidance giving us all a tummy ache, some new letters have floated to the top of family justice broth this week. Re A and Re B are...
by Lucy R | Apr 29, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Trends
A couple of weeks back, the President of the Family Division quite sensibly decided that he needed to take stock of how things were working out, now that the Family Court is conducting many hearings by remote means, whether by phone or video. To that end the Family...
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