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Meal ticket for life bid backfires – or does it?
The Telegraph is one of a number of newspapers to report on the decision of the Court of Appeal to refuse the appeal of Mrs Waggott asking for an increase in her divorce award, and to allow the appeal of Mr Waggot, asking for the duration of her maintenance award to...
Quintessentially Transparent?
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the March 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 333. In late January 2018 the President published his '18th View from the President's Chambers: the on-going process of reform...
The responsible use of attachment assessments for court
This is a guest post by Rebecca Carr-Hopkins and Tracy Rydin-Orwin (ICI trainers) and Andrea Landini (Director, Family ReIations Institute). They are responding to our post on the case of Re C [2018] EWFC B9, where a psychologist's evidence was based on a clinical...
Why doesn’t the family court punish professionals who break the rules?
On March 25th we considered what happened to people who refused to abide by orders made by the family courts and the powers family courts have to send them to prison in punishment. That blog post prompted comments along the lines of what happened when the...
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 BBC News - Reported a BBC 5 Live...
SERGEI AND YULIA SKRIPAL AND THE COURT OF PROTECTION
What are a person’s best interests in a decision to permit use of samples of body fluids or tissue for a purpose which is neither of direct therapeutic benefit to the person him or herself, or an act of direct altruism towards another person? The law of mental...
Fit for the future: transforming the court and tribunal estate – the Transparency Project’s response to the MOJ consultation
The Ministry of Justice recently ran a consultation on the future strategy for HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in its approach to court and tribunal estate reform, viewed in the context of the current digital modernisation programme. The consultation was...
Legal Bloggers attending family court hearings
We've written before about cases where we wished we'd been present alongside journalists to report on a case, to see if we saw the same things, or selected the same information to report. And we've regularly challenged, corrected or explained not very good reporting...
Bloomin’ eck! Divorcing fraudster named and shamed but the papers ignore it
Search for 'bloom divorce' on google and all you get is items about Orlando Bloom's 'painful separation from his wife Miranda Kerr'. This post is about a different and altogether less attractive Mr Bloom (no, not the one off CBeebies either). THIS Mr Bloom is a...
Worboys : Parole Board transparency and parallels with family courts
This week, the Judicial Reviews of the Parole Board's decision to release serial sex offender John Worboys were successful. Apart from quashing the decision and sending it back to be reconsidered on better evidence, the High Court also struck down that bit of the...