by Lucy R | Feb 10, 2017 | Events
A collaborative discussion between those working in and reporting on the family justice system On 5 April, The Transparency Project are hosting an event to coincide with the publication of our Media Guide for journalists, aims to promote cross-silo discussion about...
by Lucy R | Jan 31, 2017 | Comment, Court of Protection
This is a post by Barbara Rich, originally published by her via twitter and kindly reproduced here with her permission. Barbara is a barrister in private practice at 5 Stone Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, London. The views she expresses are personal. The Daily Mail has...
by Lucy R | Jan 25, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
UK judges change court rules on child contact for violent fathers Senior judges are taking steps to end the presumption that a father must have contact with a child where there is evidence of domestic abuse that would put the child or mother at risk. WRONG. WRONG....
by Lucy R | Jan 11, 2017 | Comment, Events
We have been in dialogue with Women’s Aid about assertions made by them that family courts frequently breach PD12J (practice direction in the Family Courts concerning domestic abuse) by allowing victims to be cross examined by their abusers. We wanted to...
by Lucy R | Dec 11, 2016 | Events
The Manchester Centre for Law in Society and the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre are holding a Family Law Conference on 4 March 2017 (10am – 4pm). Speakers : Rebecca Probert, Warwick University ‘The women who did: feminism, free love & freedom’...
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