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Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round-Up
Correcting and clarifying media reports of family cases; Explaining or commenting on published Judgments of family cases; Other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES: Re W – The Wrong End of the Stick (blog here) PUBLISHED FAMILY COURT...
“You and Your Father”: Judge writes TO a young person in a judgment
Mr Justice Keehan has taken the unusual step, not just of creating a short extra judgment for, but also writing that judgment directly to, the 15 year old young person, whose future he had to decide (and his father). Northamptonshire Council sought a care order for a...
Response from IPSO to our complaint about the Daily Mail
This post represents opinion and comment from Sarah Phillimore and should thus not be take as representative of the views of all members of the Transparency Project - but she hopes it is. On September 6th 2016 four family lawyers complained to the Daily Mail about...
Litigants in person – getting court documents well before the hearing begins
Conducting your own case as a litigant in person (LiP) is hard enough as it is, without being given a massive bundle of the other side’s documents and law reports at the door of the court, just as the hearing is about to begin. Last week a judge in the High Court...
Re W – The Wrong end of the stick?
[Edit 17/10/16 : The Daily Mirror Various newspapers] this week reported a family case about adoption. We think they have got it rather wrong. The article is by Brian Farmer, and is titled “Grandparents win court fight to stop grandchild they didn't know existed being...
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...