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Family Court Reporting Watch Project is GO!
This week we are launching our Family Court Reporting Watch Project, funded by the Legal Education Foundation (thanks LEF). We will be posting regularly on family court cases of interest or which have made the news. You can read the full press release here. We'd like...
IMPRESS Consultation on Draft Standards Code – The response of The Transparency Project
In view of our mission to promote the fair and accurate reporting of legal issues, we felt the Transparency Project ought to respond to the consultation by IMPRESS on its draft standards code for the press. IMPRESS was established as an independent regulator - unlike...
Good Luck on Sunday!
Our Chair, Lucy Reed, is running the Bristol Half Marathon next Sunday to raise funds for The Transparency Project. Thanks to everyone who has donated. So far Lucy has raised a whopping £686. If you would like to sponsor Lucy, there is still time : here is...
Giving a clear and simple judgment: how hard can it be?
Newspaper reports of a judgment released this week have concentrated on the use, by the judge, of an emoji - probably a first in the Senior Courts. But the judgment is far more interesting for the way the judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, has written it so that the...
The Response of the Daily Mail to #Squandergate
We published and sent our complaint about the Daily Mail's account of the President's Views on September 6th and posted here. We are grateful for the speedy response of Ms Kingsley, Readers’ Editor of Associated Newspapers Limited. It was received via email on...
At the Daily Mail we take Great Pride in the Quality of our Journalism
In August 2016 I was lucky enough to visit the Newseum in Washington DC where I took the picture above. Pictures and inspiration quotes are all very well but how do they translate into real life? Luckily for me, I live in a society where our tabloid press provides...
IMPRESS – ‘blazing a trail for a fairer, better kind of press regulation’?
In July last year, we wrote a post about developments since the Leveson report (published in 2012). At that time, we had understood that some legal changes were due in November, but in fact the relevant sections (of the Crime and Courts Act 2013) have not yet taken...
The View from the Daily Mail: Squandering and other lost opportunities
This is a post by Sarah Phillimore and represents her views about the Daily Mail which she hopes, but cannot assume, are shared by other members of the Transparency Project. It is always illuminating to run things through the Daily Mail translator. It...
McKenzie Friends: responses to the consultation
In February 2016, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and the Judicial Executive Board issued a consultation entitled “Reforming the courts’ approach to McKenzie Friends”. The consultation set out a number of proposals which had been made by a working...
Draft Anonymisation Guidance Published
Draft Guidance on anonymisation of judgments has been published this week. It is published with the support of The President of the Family Division for the purposes of consultation [see note below] - in due course it is anticipated that The President will publish...