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Sibling relationships in the care system
This is a first post by Alexandra Wilson. Alexandra is a barrister specialising in Family and Criminal law at 5 St Andrew’s Hill. She tweets as @EssexBarrister. A recent podcast on BBC sounds by ‘File on 4’ focused on separated siblings in the care system. One...
Losing Hope – Soaps and child protection storylines
This is a first post by Jack Harrison. Jack is a practising barrister at 18 St. John Street in Manchester and specialises in child law. He tweets as @JackHarrison. Broadcasters have tremendous power when it comes to influencing public perceptions of the justice...
Big news : more live streaming of court hearings – good news or not?
This week has seen news that the Crown Court is to begin to live stream sentencing remarks. Hot on the heels of that announcement came reports that the Court of Appeal will soon begin to live stream appeals in some family cases. There has been quite a lot of coverage...
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...