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Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES Sky and BBC News - Wrongly suggested that...
About that civil partnership case ….
There’s been a great deal of misunderstanding and misreporting around Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment about civil partnerships*. Civil partnership was introduced by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and is presently open to same-sex couples only. It was therefore a...
The new ‘normal’
Families Need Fathers have issued a press release, welcoming ideas put forward by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the incoming President of the Family Division, in a keynote address at their conference on the theme of restoring confidence in family justice, held on 23 June. The...
How effective is press regulation when it comes to accuracy?
We recently complained to The Daily Mail about an inaccurate article compounded by a particularly misleading headline which extracted a minor fact from a judgment that had potential to make an attention grabbing headline, and made it sound as if it was what the case...
Bob the builder – Mail : No we won’t!
We wrote recently about an article and headline in The Daily Mail that we thought was misleading. The article headlined a social worker's criticism of a mother for leaving her child on a Bob The Builder toy car when he was too little for it - and overall the article...
Could you support The Transparency Project?
The Transparency Project has been running since 2014. We think we've done some pretty good work since we first launched, and we've been greatly assisted in that by grant funding from the Legal Education Foundation. Although we run primarily as a volunteer organisation...
Family Court Reporting Watch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Mirror - Reported with Boy, 8, taken off...
Transparency – not just opening doors but inviting people in
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the May 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 605. There have now been two Bridget Lindley Memorial Lectures (BLML) organised by the Family Justice Council and both have...
Court Reform and Open Justice: responses to the Public Accounts Committee’s Transforming Courts and Tribunals inquiry
The courts of England and Wales are currently undergoing a massive process of modernisation and reorganisation. The project known as HMCTS Reform involves closing older local courts and grouping courts into larger court centres in big towns, digitising all paper...
Name-calling of judges
Image of Eleanor Rathbone MP., who the President describes as holding an honoured place amongst the family law reformers of the middle 20th century. Younger readers may not be aware that the Sunday Times was once a serious newspaper. Yesterday’s edition featured the...