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Transparency – why it matters, what it means
This is the text of a speech delivered by Chair of The Transparency Project, Lucy Reed at the Bloomsbury Family Law Conference on 16 May 2018, at Gray’s Inn. Transparency - why it matters, what it means What IS transparency and why does it matter? Implications for...
The Abuse of Alfie’s Rights: A Gilded Death is Still a Death
Introduction: #AlfiesArmy v #ImWithAlderHey – an unbridgeable divide? Alfie's life, his legal battles, and his death, have polarised opinion. Decent people on both sides of the debate have been able to acknowledge how awful it must be to be in this situation – both to...
Alfie Evans, best interests, and parental rights
By now, we all know the terrible story of Alfie Evans, who spent 16 months of his two years of life in hospital as his brain turned to water and cerebral spinal fluid and who died following the removal of life sustaining ventilation. I say ‘we all know’, but the...
New book on transparency published by Transparency Project trustees
Our three trustees have been working hard for the last few months writing a book all about transparency. It has just been published by Bloomsbury. The book is aimed primarily at professionals working in family courts. You can get a 15% discount on the book by quoting...
Why words matter – the debate about ‘disclosure’
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the April 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 464 On 15 February 2018, The Transparency Project began a dialogue about the use of language by professionals who...
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 Telegraph and the Times - We commented...
Your money or your wife
Both the Telegraph and the Times have the same story this week, including that hoary old chestnut the ‘meal ticket for life', and the suggestion that women get divorced for the money and if the money’s not good they don’t get divorced. ‘Lower payouts put wives off...
Secret State Kidnap – breathless headline or blunt reality?
Yesterday the Guardian published Louise Tickle's hard hitting opinion piece about failures of Herefordshire Council with the headline : The state has a terrible secret: it kidnaps our children. Unsurprisingly it has generated a lot of comment. With familiar signal...
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 Alfie Evans - We've drawn together some...
Alfie Evans: Summary and useful links
This photograph is from an article in Wired 'How Facebooks Fake News fix made the Alfie Evans story go viral' The sad case of Alfie Evans has attracted world wide attention in the last few days. There is a useful summary of the last year on the BBC news...