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Cafcass ‘tool up’ for children’s voices
'Voice of the Child: How to help children’s voices be heard loud and clear throughout the family court process': This was the title of an Open Board Meeting at Cafcass we attended recently. (Cafcass transparently hold two 'open' board meetings each year. One...
Privacy versus Accountability in the Family Courts
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the February 2018 issue,[2018] Fam Law 222. On 5 December 2017, The Transparency Project hosted a debate about privacy and accountability in the family courts, in...
How are children’s voices heard in the family justice system?
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the December 2017 issue [2017] Fam Law 1396. October 2017 saw a variety of interesting cases, commentary and conferences discussing children's voices in the family...
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 The Daily Mail - We questioned whether the...
Meal tickets for life…again
Yesterday we were asked to don our transparency capes and deal with a thing in The Daily Mail. We took a peek and having done so, are happy to oblige. The Daily Mail reported yesterday that : Fewer women seek divorce as they fear losing their own cash in the wake of a...
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 ITV This Morning and Daily Mail - In Expert...
Vulnerable Clients and The Family Justice System
Should a disability prevent someone being a good parent? Is vulnerability the same as disability? What does the family justice system do to protect the rights of the disabled person to be a parent and of the child to be adequately parented? How can a vulnerable parent...
Hidden transparency
We've been waiting, hawk-like, since 2014 for the 'next steps' in transparency reform. And when it came we almost missed it, hidden like a tiny rodent camouflaged under a bush. The President's View number 18 was published last week. It is all about new arrangements...
Legal help and advice to tell you how to get advice
Clarity: legal aid law and access to rights The legal aid scheme has a central irony. Lord Bingham’s first rule of his Rule of Law was that ‘The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable’ (The Rule of Law Tom Bingham, 2010 at...
Pianos and Prisons and Publication of Judgments
On 20 January the Daily Mail headline demanded : 'Family court judge must explain why pianist jailed, says campaigner' The campaigner was ex-MP John Hemming. The piano man was, we thought, a father whose protests on social media we had seen before, and in respect of...