Contempt of Court – new rules

by Paul M | Oct 10, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

Following an earlier consultation, there has been a comprehensive rewriting of the rules of court dealing with the procedure to be adopted in relation to contempt of court. There are new rules in effect from 1 October 2020 in both the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and...

That Harms Report – Part 3

by Lucy R | Oct 1, 2020 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch

This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. PART 3 This is a three part blog post. Part 1...

That Harms Report – Part 2

by Lucy R | Oct 1, 2020 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch

This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. PART 2 In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked...

That Harms Report – Part 1

by Lucy R | Oct 1, 2020 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch

This post was originally published on the Pink Tape blog on 28 September 2020 and represents the view of the author. We have published a number of other posts about the Harms report which you can read here, here and here. I’ve been chewing this one over for a...

A #BackTo60 Setback

by Barbara Rich | Sep 19, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This post, by one of our regular writers Barbara Rich, originally appeared on Medium and is reproduced with kind permission. Introduction On Tuesday 15 September 2020, the Court of Appeal gave judgment in R (Delve and Glynn) v. The Secretary of State for...

Messing about on the river (or CoP-Celia, you’re breaking my heart…)

by Lucy R | Aug 19, 2020 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Trends

As the summer has worn on, clouds have been gathering. In exchanges with other Transparency Project team members, I’ve been threatening to write a rather sullen blog post about transparency for a few weeks, and have finally been gathering my thoughts on the bow of our...