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...
by reporting watch team | Aug 23, 2019 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the July issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 825. It can be difficult writing a monthly column for a print publication when things are moving apace in the real world will it still hold currency when the edition...
by reporting watch team | Jul 3, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Following on from our post summarising the key recommendations from Mr Justice Keehan’s Public Law Working Group which can be found here, we now turn our attention to the issue of private law. The Child Arrangements Programme (the ‘CAP’) was introduced as a...
by reporting watch team | Jul 3, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Today, the President of the Family Court Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, published interim reports from his Public and Private Law Working Groups. The President opened with a short statement on his concerns around both the rising volume of care cases before the...
by reporting watch team | May 24, 2019 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
For anyone who missed Tuesday’s third episode in the BBC Victoria Derbyshire show’s investigation into how the family courts treat victims of domestic abuse, it’s available at catch up here (5:39 to 23:18). The more nuanced, collaborative, and solutions focused...
by reporting watch team | May 21, 2019 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Today The Times published a comment piece by our Chair Lucy Reed articulating the need for an inquiry into Family Courts and their handling of domestic abuse in particular : We must shed light on family court crisis. This followed Lucy’s appearance on the BBC...
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