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...
by reporting watch team | Sep 23, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
We’ve heard rumbles a couple of times in recent months, along the lines of ‘not enough legal blogging’ under the new reporting pilots in Cardiff, Carlisle and Leeds family court centres. They’ve got us thinking about how many legal blogging...
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