by reporting watch team | Jan 6, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
We dedicate this issue to District Judge Nicholas Crichton (CBE), FDAC and transparency pioneer, who sadly died on 17th December 2019. (See this JustGiving page set up by his family and his obituary in the Times) Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports...
by reporting watch team | Jan 3, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a guest post by barrister Martin Downs (@MartinJDowns) and social worker Nicola McGeown (@NicolaMcgeown) about an interesting project running in Sussex. It is a commonplace that the family justice system has faced a decade of constrained budgets, increased...
by reporting watch team | Dec 19, 2018 | Guidance Note
We have produced a guidance note to explain how family courts deal with cases where there are allegations of domestic abuse. You can view or download the guidance note here. This is v2 (December 2018) which is very slightly modified since v1 in November 2018....
by reporting watch team | Dec 10, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane issued some guidance last week on the anonymisation of published judgments in family court cases. You can read that guidance here. The Daily Mail reported this as follows : Curtain of secrecy should be...
by reporting watch team | Dec 9, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Keith Cooper, who is a senior staff writer for The Doctor magazine. Keith kindly agreed to write a post at our request when we saw his extraordinary writing about a family court case, and realised that a huge amount of work must have gone into...
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