by Guest Post | May 3, 2024 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from Alexander Chandler KC. The post originally appeared on Alex’s Family Brief blog here and is republished here with thanks to Alex. Alex tweets as @familybrief. Examples, Authorities and the Panopticon Cast your mind back to the first...
by Paul M | Apr 28, 2024 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This month once again having a day to spare I headed off for a bit more legal blogging at East London Family Court. This time I was able to observe a case which remains as yet unresolved, yet the omens seem good. The hearing I attended was covered by the Reporting...
by Julie D | Apr 26, 2024 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE 13 May 2024 – see below at end of point 1.** A few days ago, there were a number of amendments to legislation going through Parliament that tried to address widespread concerns and (if they were passed) would have had significant impact on family...
by Guest Post | Feb 29, 2024 | Comment, Transparency News
Dear Lady Chief Justice, We write on behalf of the Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network, a UK-based initiative focused on how the public can be supported to observe courts and access court information in digital and physical environments, to express our concerns...
by reporting watch team | Feb 11, 2024 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI
We have now had a reply from the Ministry of Justice to our second annual request under the Freedom of Information Act about the ‘urgent’ (2020) review of the presumption of parental involvement. Details are explained in this post. In short, we have been trying to...
by Polly Morgan | Feb 6, 2024 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Between August 2022 and June 2023, I observed, online, a number of hearings in a single case heard by His Honour Judge Shelton who is a judge in the family court in Leeds. The case was about the amount of money that the father/ex husband (James) should pay towards his...
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