by Paul M | Jan 21, 2019 | Comment, Trends
The government has today published its response to its ‘Transforming the Response to Domestic Abuse’ Consultation, which it launched in March 2018, together with a draft Domestic Abuse Bill. The consultation was launched by the Home Office and the Bill is being...
by Paul M | Jan 9, 2019 | Comment, Transparency News
“More than 150,000 people benefited from online justice in 2018”, according to a press release last week from HM Courts & Tribunals Service. Of these, more than 23,000 made applications using the new online divorce portal launched to the public in April 2018, and...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 3, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This question was asked by Lord Justice Peter Jackson in a judgment reported last month, Re F (A Child: Placement Order: Proportionality) [2018] EWCA Civ 2761 The risk here was of future significant harm and the remedy was a closed adoption. However, this...
by Project Coordinator | Dec 21, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
My name is Annie, and some of you may know me as the author of Surviving Safeguarding; a parents’ guide to the child protection process. I’m a birth parent who has been through several sets of concurrent public and private law proceedings and now writes...
by Polly Morgan | Dec 20, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
In December 2017, I wrote about Privacy and the Princess, a case involving the divorce of two members of the Luxembourg royal family, Prince Louis and Princess Tessy. The hearing I discussed was about what could be reported about their financial positions given the...
by reporting watch team | Dec 10, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane issued some guidance last week on the anonymisation of published judgments in family court cases. You can read that guidance here. The Daily Mail reported this as follows : Curtain of secrecy should be...
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