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Lessons from the Ellie Butler case
Lessons from the Ellie Butler case October 3rd London Resolution Sarah Phillimore Child Protection Resource Lucy Reed Pink Tape Andrew Pack Suesspicious minds Handouts : Sarah Phillimore's handout Lucy Reed's handout - the view looking back List of resources with...
Throwing in my Transparency Towel
This is a post by Sarah Phillimore about why she is going to take her football and go home now. Recently, two judgments were posted on BAILII relating to a sad case about two parents who could no longer be in a relationship with each other, but who had a small child...
‘Mum’s torment as monster who raped her demands access to child he fathered’: Some pointers on how applications for contact involving domestic violence should be dealt with
At the weekend the Daily Mirror reported the torment of a victim of serial rape and domestic violence, at her former partners’ application (from prison) to the family court for contact with their child and the judge’s decision to permit him to send letters. Russell...
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...