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The anonymisation wars – who is right about privacy in financial remedy cases?
This post isn't going to try and answer the question we've posed in the title (sorry) - but it is intended to try and briefly summarise some of what has been happening lately around the topic of family court transparency in financial remedies cases, and it accompanies...
Some Sunlight Seeps in
This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division[1]. In relation to transparency in the Financial Remedies Court there are further signs that the tectonic plates are shifting. BT v CU In November 2021 Mostyn J set the cat among the...
Highlights from the latest Rules Committee minutes
The minutes of the Family Justice Rules Committee (FJRC) meetings held on 7 February and 7 March 2022 are now transparently published. This is speedy compared to previously, and compared to the time it takes other hard-pressed family justice...
Something is going on with experts
This article was originally published in Family Law ([2022] Fam Law 422) in April 2022, and is reproduced here with kind permission. In October 2021 the President published a memorandum about experts. In it, Sir Andrew reminded us of four key questions to be asked in...
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Re H [2022]EWFC 10: Guidance in Learning Disability Cases
This is a post by regular contributor, Abigail Bond. Abigail is a barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol who specialises in Children Law (mainly care proceedings), and Court of Protection health and welfare matters. She tweets as @AbigailBond1. The Good...
Parenthood following surrogacy: recent cases further highlight need for reform
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is a guest post by Lottie Park-Morton, Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Gloucestershire, who is currently undertaking a PhD on surrogacy and children’s...
The value of the “small money” divorce case: why we need more judgments from everyday Family Court finance cases, and what we can learn from them
This is a guest post from Iain Large. Iain is a barrister at St John's Chambers and tweets as @ijmlarge. In this article Iain looks at two recent lower-value judgments in financial remedies cases on divorce, examples of the sorts of decisions taken on a daily basis by...
Divorce doom? Why last week’s “surge” in divorces doesn’t spell mayhem for marriage
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards, Partner and Head of Family, Forsters LLP. Jo tweets as @MissJoEdwards. The headline in last Wednesday's Daily Mail, a week to the day since the new no fault divorce process was introduced in England and Wales, was as predictable as...
FAMILY COURT REPORTING WATCH ROUNDUP
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS The Mail, Guardian and others-...
K v K – Court of Appeal give guidance on fact-finding hearings and on MIAMs
UPDATE: 18.12.23: Analysis of developments in the case, which cast a whole new light on the facts and issues, is now published here - What happened to the Ks? UPDATE: 25.11.23: A fact finding hearing and a welfare hearing have now been held, and we'll be publishing a...