by reporting watch team | Jul 27, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
In 2017 we asked the Family Procedure Rule Committee to consider temporarily amending the Family Procedure Rules by way of a temporary pilot scheme to test out allowing ‘legal bloggers’ into family court hearings, alongside journalists (they have been...
by reporting watch team | Jul 26, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
There is a lot of twitter comment about last week’s Dispatches programme (for those who didn’t catch the show it can be viewed here). We have published two posts from members of TP setting out their personal views (here and here), but we thought we’d...
by reporting watch team | Jul 11, 2021 | FCReportingWatch
We’ve just spotted that in May a Conservative MP, Robert Halfon posed this written question in the House of Commons : To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve transparency in the Family Court process. Last week,...
by reporting watch team | Jul 8, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In 2017, we wrote about a case where a family court judge came in for some very serious criticism for his treatment of professionals in the course of a judgment. This post provides an update in light of a new judgment relating to the same case. You can read our...
by reporting watch team | Jul 3, 2021 | Consultations, Events, FCReportingWatch
June 2021 sees the first anniversary of publication of the report ‘Assessing risk of harm to children and parents in private law children cases’ (the Harm report). We have published a number of posts about the report. The UK government responded to the...
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