by Lucy R | Jul 6, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
We know that the issue of family courts dealing with domestic abuse is contentious. In fact, it’s almost impossible to talk about it without being criticised by someone or other. We knew this when we produced our guidance note for families, and we knew it when we made...
by Lucy R | Jun 24, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
The press love a story about out of touch judges – think ‘Who are The Beatles?’. And so with this headline in the Mail Online : ‘Technophobe’ judges delay £1.2bn justice system reforms as plan to use new software in family court hearings...
by Lucy R | Jun 17, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Transparency Project was founded in part to counter dodgy headlines and over-simplified or inaccurate media reports about all things family law. Every so often, distortion of what a case *really* says or means comes from within the system. This is one such...
by Lucy R | May 30, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
On 10 May I attended the Family Court to see if I could attend a hearing under the Legal Blogging Pilot before heading off to collecting judgment in one of my cases at noon. I wasn’t sure that this would be very productive because of the fact I could only fit in a...
by Lucy R | May 23, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the April issue of Family Law at [2019] Fam Law 437(2). The Transparency Project has a new patron The Transparency Project is very pleased to report that Clifford Bellamy, recently retired Circuit Judge and former...
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