OUR TREATMENT OF THE VULNERABLE – CHALLENGES FOR THE FAMILY JUSTICE SYSTEM

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...

Proposal to the Law Commission for Transparency Reform

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...

Privatisation of children’s services is bad for children and bad for taxpayers

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...

PD12J & Scott Schedules – Rearranging a Spider’s web

by Guest Post | Jan 30, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post from solicitor Jeremy Ford. Jeremy is a partner, mediator and children’s arbitrator at Cambridge Family Law Practice LLP. He tweets as @headofroy. It was originally published on LinkedIn. Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the family division,...

Domestic Abuse Appeals – the warm up act?

by Lucy R | Jan 18, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Starting tomorrow, the Court of Appeal will consider four conjoined appeals where, it is said, the court’s approach to the handling of allegations of domestic abuse was wrong. There is significant interest in those appeals, and various journalists and reporters...

W (Children): judge’s recusal does not indicate bias

by Guest Post | Dec 18, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation

This is a guest post by John Bolch, reproduced with kind permission from his Family Lore blog. Reading the case name W (Children: Reopening/recusal) I assumed that this would be another of those applications by a party, invariably the father, for the recusal of...