by Guest Post | Nov 16, 2018 | Comment
This is a guest post by Jess Mant, a lecturer in law at Cardiff University, who has undertaken research directly with unrepresented litigants about their experiences in family courts. Jess was recently quoted in a Financial Times article, ‘Justice for All?: inside the...
by Sarah P | Nov 16, 2018 | Comment
In March 2017 HHJ Carol Atkinson handed down judgment in the case of H (Children : exclusion of Mackenzie friend) (Rev 1) [2017] EWFC B31 (05 March 2017). Legal Futures and the Transparency Project wrote about it at the time, though this had slipped...
by reporting watch team | Nov 7, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On Saturday 13 October, Families Need Fathers sent us a document called Analysis of Post LASPO Use of Non-Molestation Orders and said it was embargoed until the following Monday. On Monday morning, the Guardian published Parents ‘weaponising’ domestic...
by Paul M | Nov 6, 2018 | Comment, Transparency News
HMCTS have been holding regular events to update court users and get feedback on its massive ongoing Reform project. The latest such event, which took place at Westminster University in London last week, was focused on family law. Among the major developments on...
by Paul M | Oct 28, 2018 | Comment, Transparency News
This week the Ministry of Justice issued Guidance to staff on supporting media access to courts and tribunals as “part of a wider effort to build stronger working relationships between courts and the press and maintain the principle of open justice as we...
by Paul M | Oct 27, 2018 | Comment, Notorious
The Transparency Project referred a complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation after the Daily Mail refused to correct substantive inaccuracies in a headline and article about a family court judgment. The complaint was ultimately rejected, following an...
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