Anonymous Committals

Lucy Reed has blogged about a recent case where a person committed to prison for contempt of court was initially anonymous due to a reporting restriction order made by a Family Division Judge. The order has now been varied. You can read Lucy’s blog post on Pink...

Podcastarama

Sarah Phillimore and Lucy Reed have created a podcast in which they use the recent “Protection” episode of Silent Witness as a discussion point, to engage with issues around child protection and family justice. This is a first podcast for the Transparency...

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...