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Capacity to consent to sexual relations: obscurity illuminated?

by Barbara Rich | Jul 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This post originally appeared on Medium and is republished with thanks. It deals with the recent judgment of the Court of Protection in London Borough of Tower Hamlets v NB (consent to sex) [2019] EWCOP 27 and the consequences of sensational commentary on it. The...

Transparency – many small reforms and some nudges

by Lucy R | Jul 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

This blog post originally appeared as an article in the June 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 694. As we write this column just after Easter we are peering through the window to things happening over in the civil jurisdiction whilst waiting for the President of...

Nothing else will do…?

by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | Jul 18, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a post by Annie, one half of our Project Coordination team, author of Surviving Safeguarding; a parents’ guide to the child protection process and a birth parent who has been through several sets of concurrent public and private law proceedings. Annie now...

Lost voices in the process of courts digitisation

by Judith Townend | Jul 17, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a post by Judith Townend, Lecturer in Media and Information Law at the University of Sussex and a member of the Transparency Project. This piece was originally written for and published on Reform and we are grateful for the opportunity to repost it here....

A view from the cheap seats

by reporting watch team | Jul 7, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post from Bob Greig, Co Chair of Only Mums and Only Dads and co author of 101 Questions Answered About Separating With Children (links below). Bob tweets as @OnlyDads. I have been asked to write a few words on the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) public call...