by Lucy R | Feb 28, 2020 | Consultations, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division Sir Andrew McFarlane has taken the very brave decision to give an open explanation of his need to undergo open heart surgery next month, in order to explain the impact it will have on planned work in coming months. Everyone here at...
by Lucy R | Feb 11, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
It was last May, not long after he had dealt with journalist and TP member Louise Tickle’s successful appeal against a wrongly imposed reporting restriction order, that the President of the Family Division announced he would be holding a ‘Transparency...
by Judith Townend | Feb 9, 2020 | Consultations, Transparency News
Just under a year ago Dame Frances Cairncross published her recommendations for ‘a sustainable future for journalism’ in the UK. Her Government-commissioned report identified court reporting as an area of concern, citing its decline (based on Brian...
by Sophie Smith Holland | Nov 27, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. The question of how the family court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the system is placing children...
by Alice T | Nov 8, 2019 | Comment, Consultations, Events, Transparency News
This is a joint post by Alice Twaite and Judith Townend A Future Court and Tribunal Service Built for Users was the title of Tuesday’s HMCTS annual public event to inform court users and their representatives about progress of the court modernisation programme, 12...
by reporting watch team | Sep 23, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in the August 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 959. As we write this month’s column we are awaiting news of whether the six month long legal blogging pilot that has been...
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