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...

The Transparency Project – we don’t set out to please all of the people all of the time

by Lucy R | Jul 6, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

We know that the issue of family courts dealing with domestic abuse is contentious. In fact, it’s almost impossible to talk about it without being criticised by someone or other. We knew this when we produced our guidance note for families, and we knew it when we made...

A view from the front row – a barrister’s perspective of the family court’s mishandling of children cases involving domestic abuse

by Guest Post | Jul 3, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post from Dr Charlotte Proudman. Charlotte is a family law barrister at Goldsmith Chambers specialising in violence against women and girls. She tweets as @DrProudman. On 21 June 2019, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) announcedthe identity of the...

‘Custody fights blight four in ten break ups’ – A word of caution?

by Kelly Reeve | Jul 2, 2019 | Analysis, Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a first post from Kelly Reeve, new contributor, who tweets as @s37CA89research. Kelly recently completed a socio-legal research study on the use of section 37 Children Act 1989 at UEA.  She was formerly a legal adviser at Coram Children’s Legal...