by Julie Doughty | Feb 13, 2016 | Comment
As Paul Magrath noted lasted week, The Spectator published this article by Lara Prendergast on 6 February : Beware the baby-snatchers. He explained the misrepresentation of family court reporting in this story. Another unsubstantiated claim made by Lara Prendergast...
by Paul M | Feb 7, 2016 | Comment
When, recently, a popular radio and TV presenter died, several tabloid newspapers splashed their front pages with the news that Terry Wogan had lost his “secret battle with cancer”. The implication was that he, together with his medical team and close...
by Lucy R | Feb 6, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Resources, Transparency News
Transparency Project members Lucy Reed and Louise Tickle wrote an article on this topic for Family Law Journal in January. Jordans have kindly given permission for that article to be republished here. If you would like to read the article please click here to download...
by Sarah P | Feb 1, 2016 | Comment
This post arises out of a recent comment by a parent on the Child Protection Resource site. I sat in a court waiting room in the not too distant past, when I noticed a lawyer go up to the client and say the judge wants to see us in chambers. So the client sat there...
by Louise Tickle | Jan 25, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Notorious
Should the standard of proof for child sexual abuse be lowered so that more of those accused can be tried and convicted in the criminal courts? This seemed to be the argument being made by Anne Longfield, children’s commissioner for England, on the Today programme...
by Julie Doughty | Nov 25, 2015 | Comment, Court of Protection, Transparency News
This is a guest post by Lucy Series. An extended version of this post appears on The Small Places blog. The Court of Protection has just announced its first pilot project: on transparency. The pilot project will reverse the presumption in the Court of Protection...
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