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Off to IPSO we go…(hey ho)
On 27 August the Express published an article under their 'crusade' to 'End this injustice' (in family courts). We were concerned that it contained serious inaccuracies and was misleading. We wrote about that in a post on 30 August : The Danger of Crusades. On 1...
Can parents agree to a 16 year old being detained?
As a result of a new Supreme Court judgment, local authorities will no longer be able to offer residential care, with parents' agreement, to 16 and 17 year olds where they are supervised and not free to leave - unless there is a court order. This decision potentially...
Nothing else will do.
This is a post by Annie, one half of our Project Coordination team, author of Surviving Safeguarding; a parents’ guide to the child protection process and a birth parent who has been through several sets of concurrent public and private law proceedings. Annie now...
Doesn’t time fly . . .
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project's monthly column in the August 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 959. As we write this month's column we are awaiting news of whether the six month long legal blogging pilot that has been running...
Human Rights Court criticises adoption case from Norway
The case of Strand Lobben and others v. Norway 37282/13 raises issues about the human rights of birth mothers in adoption proceedings. In the context of all the discussions currently going on about human rights in adoption, it’s disappointing, despite having gone...
Lomax v Lomax – must parties consent to Early Neutral Evaluation process?
In an appeal from a decision made by a family judge in an inheritance dispute, the Court of Appeal has ruled that the consent of the parties is not needed for a court to order them to submit their case to an ENE, or "early neutral evaluation". So what exactly is an...
‘Private law children reform: a long and winding road, with Professor Hunter’
The Transparency Project was pleased to receive an invitation to this seminar hosted by Rights of Women, which took place on 3rd September in London. I popped along on their behalf. Dashed hopes My hope was that we might glean something of the progress and...
Tafida Raqeeb Case: Day 5 (final day) of the High Court hearing
Day 5 continued with submissions from Vikram Sachdeva QC, representing Tafida, instructed by her aunt as litigation friend. He submitted that the court should take no difference between adults and children in principle. Both should look at best interests in light of...
Help us raise funds to do transparency “stuff”
The Transparency Project was founded in 2014 and achieved charitable status in April 2015. The Project aims to promote better understanding of the family justice system in England & Wales by providing accessible and balanced information, and through facilitating...
Tafida Raqeeb Case: Day 4 in the High Court
As mentioned in my first blog post this week, there are two cases being heard. The first three days heard the first case, which was an application for judicial review. This application was made by Tafida’s parents to consider the legality of the decision of the...