by Paul M | Dec 3, 2020 | Comment, Trends
“Throughout the crisis, we have supported the judiciary in their prioritisation of cases to ensure the most urgent cases could be heard, and supported the implementation of the President of the Family Division’s guidance on urgent cases and remote hearings which was...
by reporting watch team | Nov 18, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory have just published the findings of a rapid evidence review on child protection mediation, in the form of a summary and full report: Both the Family Justice Review led by David Norgrove back in 2011 and the Care...
by Guest Post | Nov 13, 2020 | Comment
This is guest post by Eve French. Eve has just completed her Law Conversion course at BPP University and is currently working as a paralegal at Simpson Millar Solicitors LLP. Following a mini-pupillage, Eve was asked by 4PB to write a paper on the impact of the...
by Lucy R | Nov 6, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
So what about that Johnny Depp case then? All right, it’s a libel trial, and it involves celebs, and it’s nothing to do with the Family Court – but there are some interesting similarities between how family courts treat domestic abuse and how it was dealt with...
by Lucy R | Nov 3, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
(Please note that this post was edited on 9 November 2020 to remove some inaccurate material) There are many legitimate criticisms of the way in which family courts have dealt with domestic abuse. They are well documented in the Harm Report (see our posts here and...
by Guest Post | Oct 19, 2020 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from an anonymous lawyer. On 25 September 2020, HHJ Wildblood QC released a judgment in Re B (a child) (unnecessary private law applications). The judgment is only nine paragraphs long, and the full version can be read here. The judgment has...
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