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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...
New Lord Chief Justice wants to improve public understanding of how judges work
Giving his first annual press conference since his appointment earlier this year, the Lord Chief Justice said his two main concerns would be to increase awareness of what judges do, and to secure reforms needed to modernise the justice system. After his speech, he...
The open justice principle: a child’s crimes and a parent’s misdemeanour
Open justice for a child in criminal proceedings What legal principles connect publicity for the 17 year-old Charlie Pearce (born 3 July 2000), a double rapist and attempt murderer (R v Pearce (Press Restrictions) Haddon-Cave J (7 December 2017)) and privacy for a...
We’re recharging our batteries! Back in 2018
Merry Christmas from The Transparency Project team. We've been a bit quiet the last few weeks, but will be back with a spring in our step in 2018. By the way, the picture is of The Tate gallery, snapped by Paul Magrath as he went by. We thought it was a good metaphor...
Privacy and the Princess
Once upon a time, His Royal Highness Louis Xavier Marie Guillauime, Prince of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau and Prince of Bourbon-Parma married Tessy Antony, now Her Royal Highness Tessy Princess of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau and Princess of Bourbon-Parma....
A new financial court for the super wealthy?
The Times and The Telegraph are reporting that new courts are being established to deal with the financial side of divorces for the wealthy. ‘Divorce courts for super-rich win cautious welcome from lawyers’ is The Times’ headline; The Telegraph has ‘New courts planned...
Privacy versus accountability in the Family Courts
This is a post by Sarah Phillimore. For more tweets about discussions on the night, see #talkfamilyjustice. On 5th December 2017 The Transparency Project hosted a debate about privacy and accountability in the family courts, in order to mark the launch of our...