by reporting watch team | May 7, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from Valerie Eliot Smith. Valerie is a non-practising barrister and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She has lived with the illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1981. When health...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | May 3, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
My name is Annie, and I’m one half of the Project Coordination team at The Transparency Project. Some of you may also know me as the founder of “Surviving Safeguarding; a parent’s guide to the child protection process” as well as being the...
by Paul M | Apr 30, 2019 | Comment, Transparency News
Following an earlier consultation, Part 39 of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) (relating to hearings in civil courts*) has been amended in some significant ways. First, to bolster the open justice principle, it has tightened up the rules relating to when a hearing may...
by Alice T | Apr 23, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the March 2019 issue, Family Law [2019] Fam Law 325, and is in response to Louise Tickle’s February article at [2019] Fam Law 122. ‘Fourth Estate’ is a regular column in Family Law by Louise Tickle,...
by Paul M | Apr 22, 2019 | Comment, Trends
We’ve been prompted to take a look at Tortoise after it published Separated, an excellent in-depth analysis of an aspect of child protection law written by Polly Curtis, in which three of our members had been quoted or cited. Tortoise is a new online platform,...
by Jo Edwards | Apr 13, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Jo Edwards “DIVORCE MADE EASY.” “DIVORCE ON DEMAND.” “QUICKER DIVORCES ON THE CARDS.” “MORE BROKEN FAMILIES.” These (and other similar) headlines screamed from the front pages of newspapers across the country this...
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