by Lucy R | Apr 17, 2016 | Cases, Comment, Transparency News
This weekend a judgment from care proceedings was published on BAILII, late on Friday night. This is not unusual. But what was unusual was the fact that it was a judgment relating to a fact finding hearing in respect of sexual abuse to a young child, in which all the...
by Julie D | Apr 12, 2016 | Cases, Notorious
BY JUDITH TOWNEND. ORIGINALLY POSTED AT THE JUSTICE GAP. Thanks to The Justice Gap for permision to re-post here. Unlike the two children who murdered the toddler James Bulger in 1993, and the teenage boy who killed secondary school teacher Ann Maguire in 2014, the...
by Julie D | Mar 13, 2016 | Cases, Comment
Family courts hit the mainstream news headlines this week. Here is a brief summary of transparency related matters. Dr Waney Squier and expertise on non-accidental head injuries and babies The esoteric subject of an expert witness in the family courts came up, because...
by Lucy R | Mar 12, 2016 | Explanation
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. At The Transparency Project we tend to draft collaboratively, which can be a bit...
by Lucy R | Feb 29, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation
There have been a number of news reports today concerning the grant of legal aid to the father of Poppi Worthington, who was named by a judge as having sexually assaulted his daughter before she died. They are in very similar terms in (for example) The Times and The...
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,...
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