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Privacy, the common law and a celebrity divorce
Under the headline ‘Jamie and Louise Redknapp’s divorce papers to be kept secret as a judge blocks the release of documents’ the Transparency Project reported last week-end that the Press were complaining a London court had ‘blocked the release of papers that would...
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 Sun (followed by the Mail) - In...
Reporting Watch Update
Family Law publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in August 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 908. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher. In the June issue of Family Law at [2017] Fam Law 693 we wrote...
“Divorce Day”? Don’t believe the hype…
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards, who tweets as @MissJoEdwards. Like other fixtures in our diaries at this time of year - Boxing Day sales, gym and diet adverts starting just after Christmas, travel companies enticing us in the depths of winter with promises of...
A fork in the road – Cafcass and their pathways
A little while ago we wrote some about Cafcass' new proposed High Conflict pathway, which had been hailed in the press as a big thing in terms of dealing effectively with parental alienation. We had been offered an interview with the Cafcass Principal Social Worker,...
Celebrities are given a smidgen of privacy at a difficult time in their lives shocker
The Sun are very very cross. Why is that? Well.... Here's the headline : REDKNAPP DIVORCE SECRET Jamie and Louise Redknapp’s divorce papers to be kept secret as a judge blocks the release of documents District Judge Ian Paul Mulkis blocked the release of papers that...
Transparency Project News: The President’s Guidance – three years later
'Family Law' publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in July 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 778. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher. It is now nearly 3 years since Sir James Munby, President of the...
Who pays for the harm done to children? CN v Poole and the law of negligence
On December 21st 2017, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in CN v Poole Borough Council [2017] EWCA civ 2185. This judgment prompted a report in The Times on the 1st January 2018 with the headline 'Abuse victims told they can't sue council for...
Transparency Project News: Correction requests and complaints
'Family Law' publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in June 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 694 and is reproduced here with kind permission of the publishers. As well as writing up and commenting on specific cases, we have...
Transparency Project News: Reporting family courts
'Family Law' publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in May 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 564. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher. On 5 April 2017 The Transparency Project held a panel discussion at...