by Guest Post | Apr 2, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This is a guest post from Olive Craig. Olive is senior legal officer at Rights of Women. She is a qualified family law solicitor specialising in children law and legal aid. Rights of Women is a legal charity that provides free, confidential legal advice to women in...
by Guest Post | Mar 22, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from Katie Gollop QC. Katie is a barrister at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers specialising in healthcare related law. She’s also a Deputy High Court Judge allocated to the Family Division and Court of Protection. Katie first wrote about Pippa’s case...
by Paul M | Mar 21, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has prompted widespread concern. Coming so soon after a clash between the police and those who wished to hold a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard, news of whose disappearance and then death while walking home across London...
by Guest Post | Mar 17, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is the text of a paper by Sir James Munby (lately President of the Family Division) delivered at the Royal Holloway University of London Symposium : ‘Inequality and Rights – Contemporary Challenges in the Child Protection and Family Justice Systems before and...
by reporting watch team | Feb 28, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is the text of a proposal submitted to the Law Commission in February 2021, by The Right Honourable Sir James Munby (President of the Family Division of the High Court from 2013-2018), His Honour Clifford Bellamy (Retired Family Circuit Judge, Patron of The...
by Guest Post | Feb 17, 2021 | Comment
This is a guest post by Martin Barrow, journalist and local authority foster carer. Martin tweets as @MartinBarrow When the Care Review was formally announced in January, one of the first actions of its chair, Josh MacAlister, was to ask the Competition and...
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