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You can’t handle (51% of) the Truth!
This post is comment by Sarah Phillimore and does not represent the views of the Transparency Project generally A few weeks back I opined that In the matter of X (a child) (No 3) [2016] EWHC 2755 (Fam) was going to be the defining case of the last 25 years of family...
The X Files (Or: the Truth is Out There — but can a civil court rehearing really find it?)
In a judgment handed down today, Re X (No 3) [2016] EWHC 2755 (Fam) the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, decided to continue, despite the withdrawal of the birth parents concerned, a full re-hearing of the original allegations made in care...
High Court appeals to be heard in open court?
The press reported this week that an appeal involving Essex County Council was the first to be routed through the High Court, under new rules that have diverted some appeals from the Court of Appeal to High Court judges as a result of the Court of Appeal having an...
Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up
• Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases • Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family cases • Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES The Sun followed the Mirror in...
Ellie Butler case debated in House of Lords
The Children And Social Work Bill is going through Parliament at present. It has been controversial due to parts which some have said would allow social services to be privatised and which could remove current safeguards. This post is about another aspect of the Bill,...
Transparency: the Perfect Storm
The recent decisions of Hayden J concerning a 7 year old boy, whose mother insisted he wished to be raised as a girl, set out a wide variety of the issues that concern the Transparency Project and which have provoked strong emotion for many readers. a complicated set...
If your ex takes your child to the other end of the country should the court treat it as abduction?
The Court of Appeal has clarified the question of how courts should deal with cases where one parent takes a child to live in a distant part of the country without the agreement of the other. The case is Re R (Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1016 (20 October 2016) and the full...
Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round-Up
• Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family cases • Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family cases • Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES: 'Judge orders boy, seven, to live...
The terrifying tale of how Britain’s most secret court imprisoned a grandmother (AKA Court enforces its own orders and publishes judgment for the world to see)
This week Christopher Booker, chose this as his topic for his Sunday Telegraph column : The terrifying tale of how Britain's most secret court imprisoned a grandmother This is of course a very worrying headline. The article itself is also likely to raise...
Advertising children for adoptive parents in the national press
There have been four adverts for adoptive parents for children in the Mirror this week with another due tomorrow for ‘National Adoption Week’. They are here: 'Will you be my forever parents?' Heartbreaking story of boy who wants to be adopted'; ‘Alex wants nothing...