by reporting watch team | Jan 11, 2024 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
We’re posting a link to this new article by Sir James Munby, retired President of the Family Division, which has been published by the Financial Remedies Journal here – The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts The article isn’t just...
by reporting watch team | Dec 17, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
The ‘Reporting Pilot’ currently operates in three family courts with regard to cases about children. A new pilot is to begin in cases about financial disputes on divorce. The following press release was sent out by the Judicial Press Office on 14 December:...
by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2023 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
In August this year, a journalist attempted to observe the first day of a multi-day final hearing in a private children case. She was refused access by the judge, His Honour Judge Haigh. The following day, another journalist [Louise Tickle, who is a member of The...
by reporting watch team | Nov 19, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI
We wrote about the Cafcass in-house psychology service ‘that no one seemed to know about’ back in April and again in October. We received replies on 10 November from Cafcass Governance to our follow-up freedom of information questions. We weren’t...
by reporting watch team | Oct 4, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, FOI
UPDATE 25.11.23: We have now received replies to our follow-up questions and will publish these, and our views on them, next week. In April we wrote a blog post: The ‘Psychology Service’ for family court cases that nobody seems to know about: The ‘Psychology...
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