by Lucy R | Feb 24, 2016 | Explanation, Transparency News
UPDATE FEB 2017 : In light of the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Hackney v Williams (see here) we will be looking at our guidance note to see if it needs amendment or updating. Following on from the guidance about recording that we published in December 2015,...
by Julie D | Nov 2, 2015 | Cases, Explanation
An important judgment, Louise Tickle v the Council of the Borough of North Tyeside was published on BAILII last week. It has been reported on the UK Human Rights blog and on Inforrm. This was an application by journalist, Louise Tickle, for permission to publish...
by Lucy R | Nov 1, 2015 | Explanation, Transparency News
An article in The Guardian on 26 October refers to a “Ukip policy paper on opening up the family courts” : Family courts must open up to avoid ‘outrageous injustices’, warns Ukip. The article itself is selective and uses quite emotive language,...
by Lucy R | Aug 27, 2015 | Explanation
Earlier this week we highlighted reports in the press suggesting that a Sun “probe” had uncovered that children were being removed because their parents played too many video games. See Julie D’s post : Press reporting random scare stories helps...
by Lucy R | Aug 22, 2015 | Analysis, Explanation, Trends
John Hemming, former MP, has recently written a blog post on the Marilyn Stowe blog, called Adoption – A look at the statistics, in which he says : In the year to 31 March 2014 5,050 children left care through adoption, and of these 2,400 were “non consensual”...
by Lucy R | Aug 4, 2015 | Cases, Explanation, Transparency News
Wigan Borough Council v Fisher & Ors v Fisher & Thomas (Rev 1) [2015] EWFC 34 (21 April 2015) is a decision of Mr Justice Peter Jackson in which he considers whether a judgment in care proceedings should be published. The interesting features of it are : The...
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