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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Draft Guidance on anonymisation of judgments has been published this week.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...
Child Protection Conference 2016 – presentations
With apologies for the delay, here are the available presentations from the Child Protection Conference on 3 June 2016. We have also recently published a transcript of the panel discussion that took place on the day, which you can find here. Andy Bilson : Presentation...
Panel Discussions at CPConf2016 – where do we go from here?
Panel Discussion CPConf2016 3rd June 2016 This is a partial transcript typed up by Sarah Phillimore from the audio recording of the discussion at the end of CPConf2016 which took place at Birmingham on June 3rd 2016. Some parts are incomplete as the recording was not...
Prison threat for “gran jailed over a hug”
New prison threat for gran who was jailed over a hug: Pensioner could be locked up again after helping her granddaughter to escape from a care home Court order prevents contact between Kathleen Danby and granddaughter In 2014 Mrs Danby, 74, was sent to jail after...
Former MP John Hemming urges appeals court to look in to case of teenager related to public figure
A story under this headline appeared on the Your Local Guardian site on 8 August : Former MP John Hemming urges appeals court to look in to case of teenager related to public figure. It suggests that ex-MP John Hemming is going to be launching an appeal to the Court...
Two million things wrong with this headline…
Child killer's £2m legal aid: How taxpayers funded Ellie Butler's warped father's battle for custody of the little girl he went on to murder Ben Butler, 36, was given a 'blank cheque' by taxpayers to fund his lawyers Ellie's loving grandparents left penniless after...
The “secret” transparency pilot
Although it was announced quite openly, and written about here on this blog, we suspect that the Court of Protection's transparency pilot scheme has not actually resulted in any attendance of cases by members of the public unconnected with a case. One reason for this...
Ellie Butler – the missing judgment about her sibling
We have previously written about the tragic case of Ellie Butler a number of times on this blog : Ellie Butler - drawing together some strands and discussions Ellie Butler - some useful resources Lessons from the Ellie Butler Case Lucy Reed also wrote a post on Pink...