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Do social workers have a duty of care to protect children of local authority tenants?

Do social workers have a duty of care to protect children of local authority tenants?

by Julie Doughty | Jun 6, 2019 | Cases, Explanation

You can tell this was likely to be an important case because there are five ‘interverners’ – organisations that have an interest, in principle, in the outcome – in this particular case, from a human rights and children’s rights perspective. The applicants were two...
Independent research on domestic abuse and family courts

Independent research on domestic abuse and family courts

by reporting watch team | Jun 1, 2019 | Analysis, FCReportingWatch

In the Victoria Derbyshire television programme on 16 May, Sir James Munby, the former President of the Family Division, acknowledged (via a written statement) the weight of expressions of dissatisfaction and concern that was building up about orders for contact...
Money, money, money, must be funny, in an [anonymised beneficiary’s] world: protecting child beneficiaries in variation of trust cases

Money, money, money, must be funny, in an [anonymised beneficiary’s] world: protecting child beneficiaries in variation of trust cases

by Paul M | Jun 1, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

A typical plot development in old novels is the sudden discovery of unexpected wealth, usually in the form of an inheritance, or the discovery of a long lost will or hidden relationship to a wealthy benefactor.   That is sometimes what it...
Legal blogging by consent

Legal blogging by consent

by Lucy R | May 30, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

On 10 May I attended the Family Court to see if I could attend a hearing under the Legal Blogging Pilot before heading off to collecting judgment in one of my cases at noon. I wasn’t sure that this would be very productive because of the fact I could only fit in a...
Judge agrees learning disabled man can make his own choice about marriage and should be told about his finances

Judge agrees learning disabled man can make his own choice about marriage and should be told about his finances

by Abigail Bond | May 24, 2019 | Cases, Explanation

This is a first post from Abigail Bond, one of our new contributors. Abigail tweets as @AbigailBond1. In May this year Mr Justice Francis handed down a carefully anonymised judgment in a case concerning PBM, a man in his mid-twenties who had an acquired brain injury...

Transparency Project News April 2019

by Lucy R | May 23, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News

This blog post originally appeared as an article in the April issue of Family Law at [2019] Fam Law 437(2). The Transparency Project has a new patron The Transparency Project is very pleased to report that Clifford Bellamy, recently retired Circuit Judge and former...
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