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Written evidence to Commons Justice Committee’s Court and Tribunal Reforms inquiry
In January 2019 the House of Commons Justice Select Committee launched an inquiry into the HMCTS Reform programme "to consider the progress made with the reforms so far and the implications of planned changes, particularly in relation to access to justice." As...
Alienating behaviours and appealing about an expert report
This post is about a High Court case called Re MFS (Appeal: Transfer of Primary Care) [2019] EWHC 768 (Fam), a judgment delivered in March by Mr Justice Williams. We wrote this post some weeks ago, but the judgment was removed from BAILII before we published, so we...
Privacy and anonymity orders in civil litigation
Following an earlier consultation, Part 39 of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) (relating to hearings in civil courts*) has been amended in some significant ways. First, to bolster the open justice principle, it has tightened up the rules relating to when a hearing may...
Family Court Reporting Watch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court casesExplaining or commenting on published judgments of family court casesHighlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES Linkless The Mirror, Guardian, Mail etc...
Humbug back at ya!
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the March 2019 issue, Family Law [2019] Fam Law 325, and is in response to Louise Tickle's February article at [2019] Fam Law 122. 'Fourth Estate' is a regular column in Family Law by Louise Tickle, award-winning...
What has Tortoise taught us about slow news and ‘wising up’?
We’ve been prompted to take a look at Tortoise after it published Separated, an excellent in-depth analysis of an aspect of child protection law written by Polly Curtis, in which three of our members had been quoted or cited. Tortoise is a new online platform,...
Family Court Reporting Watch – Eggstremely Eggsellent!
It's 2 ½ years since we launched our Family Court Reporting Watch project, with grant support from the fantastic Legal Education Foundation. Since then we've produced 401 posts under the 'FCRW' banner, and we've had lots of positive feedback telling us how useful our...
When children are abducted by a parent – a scourge, an unspeakable cruelty and a matter of public interest
Since yesterday the news has been full of reports about a Ukrainian 'Billionaire, Sergiy Tigipko, investigated over abduction of [his] UK grandchildren' (See the BBC. Also, for example, Businessman reveals fight to bring daughters back to UK after ex-wife took them to...
“Love her how I love her”
On the 3rd of April, BBC News published this story on their local news site for Leeds and West Yorkshire. The Metro and Sky News also picked up on the story nationally with the description of a mum who "puts toddler up for adoption". Both pieces describe the...
Family Court Reporting Watch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court casesExplaining or commenting on published judgments of family court casesHighlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Times, the Guardian and others - Most...