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CS v SBH: a child’s competence to appoint her own lawyer
This case concerned the question whether, on an appeal, a child was entitled to choose and be represented by a solicitor of her own choice, instead of the solicitor already instructed by the court-appointed guardian. At the time of the appeal the child was almost 13...
How far should family law reflect modern family life? The case of cohabitation, equal civil partnerships and the common law marriage myth
This is a Guest Post by Anne Barlow FAcSS; Professor of Family Law and Policy and Associate Dean for Research, College of Social Sciences & International Studies at the University of Exeter. This was originally posted in the ESRC Society Now magazine as a feature...
Guidance Notes
We've recently made some minor updates to a number of our guidance notes, which can be found here. We've updated the pdfs of each which are free to download and use, and will shortly be updating the online web versions too. Our set of guidance notes now includes :...
I call humbug
This blog post originally appeared in the February 2019 issue, [2019] Fam Law 122. Whatever you think of the media, journalists' mistakes couldn't be more visible. If we get a fact wrong, the evidence is there in black and white. If we write an article that you think...
The President’s guidance on anonymisation in published judgments
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the February 2019 issue, [2019] Fam Law 203. On 7 December 2018, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the President of the Family Division, issued some...
Event: Caring for Critically ill Children in the Glare of Digital Media
Rights, Best Interests and Public Good in the Age of ‘Generation Tagged’ 1st May 20196th Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law#TRILCon19 Emma Nottingham, a member of the Transparency Project and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of...
Capacity to use the internet
This is a guest post from Keri Tayler. Keri is a barrister specialising in Court of Protection work. She tweets as @keri_tayler. Two recent judgments in the Court of Protection sparked the usual inaccurate headlines suggesting that the court had ridden roughshod over...
Court of Appeal decision about orders for post-adoption contact
Re B (A Child) (Post-adoption contact) [2019] EWCA Civ 29 is the first time (since a change in the law in 2014) that the Court of Appeal has considered when an order should be made that an adopted child will have continuing contact with their birth family after he or...
Journalists and legal bloggers attending family courts – we’re re-running our workshop for lawyers
In light of the Legal Blogging Pilot implemented through PD36J, The Transparency Project has developed a CPD workshop for lawyers interested in brushing up their ‘transparency’ knowledge – whether with a view to taking part in the scheme themselves, or...
Family Court Reporting Watch Round Up
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 Express and Mirror - We explained the law...