by Guest Post | Jan 12, 2023 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious, Transparency News
FAMILY JUSTICE: OSTIIS APERTIS?[1] Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy?[2] A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division On 28 October 2021 the President published the outcome of his...
by Julie Doughty | Nov 27, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This blog post will not go into detail about the distressing history of five year old Logan Mwangi, with which we are all too familiar through media coverage of the trial of the three people who were responsible for his death. An impression had been given at that time...
by Alice T | Jul 24, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS Linktastic BBC News –...
by Guest Post | May 2, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division[1]. In relation to transparency in the Financial Remedies Court there are further signs that the tectonic plates are shifting. BT v CU In November 2021 Mostyn J set the cat among the...
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...
by Alice T | Dec 5, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Media stories this week of an adoption breakdown, from the perspective of an adoptive mother who felt she had no option but to ask for her older child (15) to return to care, have provoked lots of comment, some of it scathing. We’ve gathered the reports and broadcasts...
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