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One appeal, Two Bakers and Three tries at a fact finding
In D (Fact-finding appeal) [2019] EWCA Civ 2302 (20 December 2019) Lord Justice Baker gives the lead judgment concerning an appeal from His Honour Judge Baker. The upshot is that, the question of the child's injuries having been the subject of two attempts at fact...
Behind Closed Doors – BBC Radio 4’s legal drama
Monday 13th- Friday 17th January 2.15pm This is a guest blog post from Clara Glynn. Clara is a Scottish based writer and television director with Hopscotch Films. I write Behind Closed Doors, which is now in its fourth series. My background...
Interim privacy injunctions: a change in the rules to improve the recording of data
In 2017 a new list was created in the Queen’s Bench Division, to be known as the Media and Communications List, and Mr Justice Warby, a media law specialist, was put in charge of it. The list was designed to deal with the broader range of media-related claims than was...
Tafida Raqeeb: Costs Judgment
In 2019, we reported on the tragic case of Tafida Raqeeb. Raqeeb v Barts Health NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 2531 (Admin) and [2019] EWHC 2530 (Fam)). As a brief reminder, Tafida Raqeeb, now aged 5, experienced a catastrophic brain injury in February...
The perennial pantomime of ‘Divorce D Day’?
This post originally appeared at Linked In and on the Pennington Manches Cooper website and is re published with thanks. Its author, Tony Roe, is a consultant at Pennington Manches Cooper and tweets as @tonyroedivorce. The first working Monday in January 'dubbed...
The Open Justice Principle – the clue is in the title…
A little while ago we wrote about a case called Cape v Dring. It wasn't a family case at all, in fact it was something to do with asbestos, and the reason we wrote about it was because it dealt with the principles that apply to applications for sight of documents...
Bumper Roundup
This is a roundup with a difference - it's a review of all things transparency in 2019. There's a lot of ground to cover! In the new year we're hoping to bring back our regular Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media...
Experience as a legal blogger at the Tafida Raqeeb Case
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project's monthly column in Family Law for December 2019 at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1476. Case background In September, I attended the hearing of the the Tafida Raqeeb case (Raqeeb (by her litigation friend) v...
Legal advice on online forums and social media (Part I)
This is a post from Tatiana Tkacukova, lecturer in English Language at Birmingham City University. There are many concerns expressed about the quality of advice now available to parties in family court cases, as so few have lawyers. This blog post discusses the...
President says ‘We can’t cope’ – oh, and that transparency review is Go!
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane (that's 'Top Judge' to you), has sent us his Christmas letter. Adopting the traditional format of the 'View from the President's Chambers', Sir Andrew tackles a number of issues, two of which are of particular...