by Sarah P | Sep 24, 2015 | Comment
Is the drive to get children out of state care and into adoptive families having an impact on decision making in care proceedings? This is a collective post by the Transparency Project Adoption Targets? The debate about the merits or otherwise of adoption...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 21, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Comment
In a judgment published on Bailii last week, called H v A (No.2), Mr Justice MacDonald had to consider a very risky situation that had potentially arisen because of the current Family Court guidance about publishing judgments. This case illustrates an interesting...
by Sarah P | Aug 31, 2015 | Comment
The reporting of complex family court judgments. We are grateful for this guest post from Sanchia Berg, a reporter for Radio 4’s Today programme. She covers major news stories and also delivers original journalism- notably in fields of Education, Immigration, History...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 25, 2015 | Comment
A particularly irritating example of opaque reporting came up under #familylaw on twitter yesterday. According to this story in the Telegraph, Child whose parents played too many video games ‘removed from family home’ Social Services said to have believed...
by David Burrows | Aug 14, 2015 | Comment, Transparency News
Consultation on draft amendment rules From at least last summer, the people who run the family courts have been concerned about the roles of children’s evidence and views in family proceedings; and the participation in proceedings of ‘vulnerable’ individuals (see...
by Sarah P | Jul 24, 2015 | Comment
I wrote one blog post this week which I thought was about one thing – the irritating promotion of a dangerous untruth that the UK is the ‘only’ country in Europe or even the World that permits ‘forced adoption’. Interestingly, the focus...
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