by Lucy R | Apr 3, 2015 | Comment, Trends
This is a guest post by “Judi”. Judi is a parent who has been through the Family Court who has acted as a Litigant in Person and McKenzie Friend. Once upon a time, in this land places called courts used to have public counters that opened reasonable hours,...
by Sarah P | Mar 20, 2015 | Comment, Events
To ban or not to ban? We have had a debate about our ‘ground rules’ for the conference on 1st June. We have all agreed that, if there are people we have serious grounds to suspect don’t share our aims and objectives and those people are likely to try...
by Allan Norman | Feb 15, 2015 | Comment, Trends
OK, it’s not a pithy title. It is, however, the formal title of the document that I’m about to review. And it is an accurate description of what the document is about. Here it is:...
by Sarah P | Jan 22, 2015 | Comment
‘If I wait for evidence it can be too late’ – when dramatic licence goes too far I watched the first half of Silent Witness: Protection on Wednesday via iplayer and smiled indulgently at some of the more anguished twitter responses to its...
by Paul M | Jan 15, 2015 | Cases, Comment, Explanation
There is an assumption in some parts of the media that the Family Courts are deliberately operating in a secretive manner in order to cover up the sinister conduct of social workers, doctors, and local authorities, and that is why hearings are held in private (ie in...
by Lucy R | Jan 13, 2015 | Comment, Trends, Uncategorized
Transparency is about understanding not information. Quality not quantity. Substance not form. So more judgments ≠ more transparency. And more open courts ≠ more transparency. And more and more and more and more and more information on a single website ≠ more...
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