by Paul M | Jun 12, 2018 | Comment, Consultations, Transparency News
The courts of England and Wales are currently undergoing a massive process of modernisation and reorganisation. The project known as HMCTS Reform involves closing older local courts and grouping courts into larger court centres in big towns, digitising all paper...
by reporting watch team | Jun 11, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Image of Eleanor Rathbone MP., who the President describes as holding an honoured place amongst the family law reformers of the middle 20th century. Younger readers may not be aware that the Sunday Times was once a serious newspaper. Yesterday’s edition featured the...
by reporting watch team | May 22, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This is a guest post by Katie Gollop QC and Sarah Pope. Katie represented Great Ormond Street hospital in the Charlie Gard case, and tweets as @katiegollop Sarah and Katie appeared in the recent case of Re R (A Child) [2018] EWFC 28. Sarah tweets as @sbvpope. Shortly...
by Lucy R | May 21, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
We recently wrote about an article by Louise Tickle in the Guardian which had caused a certain amount of controversy, in particular arising from her use of the term ‘kidnap’ to describe failures of local authorities to act appropriately when accommodating...
by Lucy R | May 19, 2018 | Comment, Transparency News
This is the text of a speech delivered by Chair of The Transparency Project, Lucy Reed at the Bloomsbury Family Law Conference on 16 May 2018, at Gray’s Inn. Transparency – why it matters, what it means What IS transparency and why does it matter? Implications...
by Allan Norman | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Introduction: #AlfiesArmy v #ImWithAlderHey – an unbridgeable divide? Alfie’s life, his legal battles, and his death, have polarised opinion. Decent people on both sides of the debate have been able to acknowledge how awful it must be to be in this situation –...
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