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Court hearing lists and open justice

Court hearing lists and open justice

by Paul M | May 5, 2022 | Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

A cheery post on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service blog recently announced that developers were now working on on  Making hearing lists more accessible to court and tribunal users This is long overdue. HMCTS has had court listings on its list, as it were, ever since...
The Equal Treatment Bench Book – guidance on fairness for judges

The Equal Treatment Bench Book – guidance on fairness for judges

by reporting watch team | Dec 31, 2021 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Resources

We’ve just noticed that a revised version of this lengthy document (566 pages!) has been issued online, so we looked for any references to transparency. What we found is brief and out of date. The preface by Lady Justice King explains that the book is a...
Authorities seeking to silence families?

Authorities seeking to silence families?

by Julie D | Dec 21, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch

On 24 November, the BBC broadcast the story above. The Court of Protection (CoP) judgment, PH & Anor v Brighton And Hove City Council [2021] EWCOP 63, has now been published on BAILII. The full name of the case is: PH and RH v (1) Brighton and Hove City Council...
Discharging a party in a case – without telling them why

Discharging a party in a case – without telling them why

by Julie D | Apr 22, 2021 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This newly published judgment, Re P (Discharge of Party) [2021] EWCA Civ 512 is interesting because ‘It appears that this is the first case in which a special advocate has been instructed in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal’ [para 5]. A special advocate is a...
Contempt, court orders and P’s confidentiality

Contempt, court orders and P’s confidentiality

by Guest Post | Oct 5, 2020 | Court of Protection, Explanation

This is a guest post by Alex Ruck Keene, a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers who specialises in Court of Protection work. In a very unusual case, P v Griffith [2020] EWCOP 46, the Court of Protection has sentenced a woman, a Ms Griffith, to 12 months imprisonment for...
Messing about on the river (or CoP-Celia, you’re breaking my heart…)

Messing about on the river (or CoP-Celia, you’re breaking my heart…)

by Lucy R | Aug 19, 2020 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot, Trends

As the summer has worn on, clouds have been gathering. In exchanges with other Transparency Project team members, I’ve been threatening to write a rather sullen blog post about transparency for a few weeks, and have finally been gathering my thoughts on the bow of our...
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