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Solicitors in a state of flux
This is a guest post by Mena Ruparel. Mena (@avoidgravity) is a solicitor and co-author of "How to be an ethical solicitor" published by Bath Publishing. On 31 August the Court of Appeal handed down the judgment in the big money case of Mr and Mrs Hart. Mrs Hart...
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 Times and other commentators -...
The Project is shortlisted for an award
We're really pleased to have been shortlisted for the Jordans' Family Law Commentator Of The Year award. The competition is pretty fierce, so who knows if we will win, but we are just happy to bask in the recognition of being shortlisted for now. Who gets the award...
Misreporting the misreporting – that foster care case again
We've written about the so-called "muslim foster care case" already (here and here). We've been somewhat critical of the coverage by The Times. But we are a little concerned that some of the criticism we have seen of media reports, particularly but not exclusively of...
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 Times - We commented on the...
The most secretive court in all of Christendom…
Recent coverage of the placement of a 5 year old Christian girl with a muslim foster family that spoke no English has generated much outrage and media attention this week. But as more information emerges it is becoming clear that things are more complex and less clear...
Are we still ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ and if so, at what cost to children?
This is a guest blog post by Marion Oswald Senior Fellow at The Centre for Information Rights, University of Winchester, examining the British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) consultation run by The Centre of Information Rights. The...
Cafcass response to the Transparency Project comments on their draft revised Framework
On 11 August, the Cafcass policy and communications team emailed us in reply to our comments on their revised framework. We explain what they said below. We will now write again, as well as alert them to this blog through twitter. They told us (our summary not their...
Primacy of children’s interests in the publicity debate
Freedom of expression: are children’s interests ‘paramount’? In her update on transparency on the Transparency Project blog ‘Lucy R’ raised what has been said by Sir James Munby P: that ‘the interests of the child are NOT paramount on questions of...
Mother jailed for contempt could be named despite her young child being involved in anonymised family court proceedings. Why?
To those accustomed to the idea that the family courts sit “behind closed doors” it may seem surprising for a judge to tell journalists they could name a woman who was being jailed for contempt of court, even though her three-year-old daughter was caught up in a...