Wood for Trees

Transparency is about understanding not information. Quality not quantity. Substance not form. So more judgments ≠ more transparency. And more open courts ≠ more transparency. And more and more and more and more and more information on a single website ≠ more...

How transparent can we be?

As its very new, we’re still feeling our way through how we will run this project – and we have recently had to deal with the thorny issue of what the limits are on comments about individual cases. We have an “Editorial Policy” here, which sets...

Transparency Consultation – Responses Gathered

We have published our own response to the President’s Aug 14 consultation regarding Transparency here. Here are the other ones we’ve found. Association of Lawyers for Children response (our summary here) Resolution response (our summary here) Family Law...

Project News

In December we held a meeting of the project group via video link and as a result you’ll now see that we have a number of new contributors to the blog, listed here. Welcome to David Burrows, Alice Twaite, David Chaplin and Jerry Lonsdale. Over the next little...