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Byline Fest: discussing Truth, Trust and Transparency in the Justice System
The Transparency Project will be this year’s Byline Festival with a panel discussion and a two-part workshop. The festival takes place at Pippingford Park in Sussex over the bank holiday weekend (23 to 26 August 2019). It’s an arts and music festival with a strong...
The Princess and the FMP Order
The mainstream media reports that Princess Haya of Dubai has been at the Royal Courts of Justice this week, seeking forced marriage protection orders (FMPOs) in respect of one of her children. According to news reports, publishing the sex or age of her children is...
Capacity to consent to sexual relations: obscurity illuminated?
This post originally appeared on Medium and is republished with thanks. It deals with the recent judgment of the Court of Protection in London Borough of Tower Hamlets v NB (consent to sex) [2019] EWCOP 27 and the consequences of sensational commentary on it. The...
Transparency – many small reforms and some nudges
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the June 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 694. As we write this column just after Easter we are peering through the window to things happening over in the civil jurisdiction whilst waiting for the President of...
![Re AB (Termination of Pregnancy) [2019] EWCA Civ 1215: An explanation of the Court of Appeal’s decision in the so-called ‘forced abortion’ case](https://transparencyproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2019-07-22-at-12.08.13-1080x675.png)
Re AB (Termination of Pregnancy) [2019] EWCA Civ 1215: An explanation of the Court of Appeal’s decision in the so-called ‘forced abortion’ case
This is a post from Abigail Bond, one of our new contributors. Abigail tweets as @AbigailBond1. On Friday 21 June 2019 Mrs Justice Lieven gave an ex tempore (spoken) judgment in open court in the Court of Protection, declaring that AB, a 24 year old...
How does the family court treat domestic abuse?: (A snapshot continued – part 4)
This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. The question of how the family court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the system is placing children and...
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...
Lost voices in the process of courts digitisation
This is a post by Judith Townend, Lecturer in Media and Information Law at the University of Sussex and a member of the Transparency Project. This piece was originally written for and published on Reform and we are grateful for the opportunity to repost it here....
The main ways to support the Transparency Project!
The Transparency Project is a registered charity, run almost entirely by volunteers who also have full-time jobs. We carry out an important legal function that no one else provides and our work is valued by professionals and families in the family justice system. We...
How does the family court treat domestic abuse?: A snapshot (continued)
This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. The question of how the Family Court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the system is placing children and...