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Protecting the identity of a child whose sibling has been killed by their parents

Protecting the identity of a child whose sibling has been killed by their parents

by Julie Doughty | Mar 8, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This was the issue in the landmark human rights case, Re S [2004] UKHL 47, in which Lord Steyn formulated the test in balancing privacy interests under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights with freedom of expression interests under Article 10. Lord...
A Crisis in allocating social work ‘Guardians’ to vulnerable children? And other news from the last Cafcass Open Board meeting 

A Crisis in allocating social work ‘Guardians’ to vulnerable children? And other news from the last Cafcass Open Board meeting 

by Alice T | Mar 5, 2022 | Events, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

Cafcass have led for some time in opening certain board meetings to stakeholders and pre registered members of the public, and consistently lodging minutes on their website albeit a few months later. They now lodge not just the agenda but also the CEO report to every...
Going off piste: how far beyond the local authority’s ‘threshold’ allegations can the court go in the findings it makes against parents?

Going off piste: how far beyond the local authority’s ‘threshold’ allegations can the court go in the findings it makes against parents?

by Guest Post | Mar 1, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post by Iain Large. Iain is a practising barrister and a member of St John’s Chambers in Bristol. He is a specialist in both public law children proceedings and private law disputes involving children, financial and property matters. He tweets as...
Local authority support services in Wales and private law contact disputes: Re R-E

Local authority support services in Wales and private law contact disputes: Re R-E

by Julie Doughty | Feb 5, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This judgment, Re R-E (Contact: Support from local authorities in Wales) [2021] EWFC B95 from Pontypridd Family Court, published on BAILII a few days ago, has a number of unusual features. One is the outcome, that direct contact was found not to be in the...
Justice system data in 2022: New year reflections and resolutions

Justice system data in 2022: New year reflections and resolutions

by Judith Townend | Jan 7, 2022 | Analysis, Explanation, Transparency News

What’s the collective noun for browser tabs? I ended my year with a lot – a flock? A bevy? – open, mainly relating to one of my main preoccupations, justice system data (i.e. information generated by the process of justice). I’m somewhat nervously returning to them...
Griffiths v Tickle – a lawyer’s view

Griffiths v Tickle – a lawyer’s view

by Lucy R | Dec 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News

This post originally appeared on the author’s blog Pink Tape and is reposted here with permission (NB, disclosure : the author is the Chair of The Transparency Project). Most of the newspapers carried the story on Saturday: ‘Andrew Griffiths found to have...
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