The perennial pantomime of ‘Divorce D Day’​?

by Guest Post | Dec 31, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This post originally appeared at Linked In and on the Pennington Manches Cooper website and is re published with thanks. Its author, Tony Roe, is a consultant at Pennington Manches Cooper and tweets as @tonyroedivorce. The first working Monday in...

Experience as a legal blogger at the Tafida Raqeeb Case

by Emma Nottingham | Dec 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious

This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in Family Law for December 2019 at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1476. Case background In September, I attended the hearing of the the Tafida Raqeeb case (Raqeeb (by her litigation...

Legal advice on online forums and social media (Part I)

by Tatiana Tkacukova | Dec 22, 2019 | Comment, Transparency News

This is a post from Tatiana Tkacukova, lecturer in English Language at Birmingham City University. There are many concerns expressed about the quality of advice now available to parties in family court cases, as so few have lawyers. This blog post discusses the...

How does the family court treat domestic abuse?: A snapshot (continued – Part 7)

by Sophie Smith Holland | Nov 27, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch

This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. The question of how the family court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the system is placing children...

Orphans from Syria

by Lucy R | Nov 27, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Mr Justice Keehan has this week published an extraordinary judgment of a mere 17 staccato paragraphs. It is called Re Orphans From Syria [2019] EWHC 3202 (Fam). It begins : This matter concerns British citizens who were in Syria who are orphans. I made a...

Byline Festival

by Paul M | Nov 23, 2019 | Comment, Events, FCReportingWatch

This blog post originally appeared as our monthly column for November 2019 in Family law at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1334. During the summer vacation, the Transparency Project took its message to the people. We organised two events at the Byline Festival in East...