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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Draft Guidance on anonymisation of judgments has been published this week.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...
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...