by Julie Doughty | Mar 24, 2025 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE – 2nd July 2025 – see bottom of this post Journalists and legal bloggers (reporters) are normally allowed to see certain types of documents under the Reporting Provisions that came in this year, and earlier during the Reporting Pilot. Sometimes...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 23, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
We wrote last year about a hearing I attended in Cardiff Family Court about the necessity for an intermediary to assist a father in a fact-finding hearing. We were therefore interested to see recently listed an appeal against a decision made by a judge in a different...
by reporting watch team | Mar 14, 2025 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Dale Vince, described on Wikipedia as ‘a British Green energy industrialist, former New Age traveller’ attracts a good deal of publicity whether it’s his political donations, owning a ‘green’ football team, or taking libel actions against publishers who wrongly...
by reporting watch team | Mar 2, 2025 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch
In April last year, the Lady Chief Justice set up a new Transparency and Open Justice Board, chaired by Mr Justice Nicklin. It aims to lead and coordinate the promotion of transparency and open justice across the courts and tribunals of England & Wales and support...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 17, 2025 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week, we wrote on a family court judgment about children that had been published on TNA and BAILII naming an individual party, which we said almost never happened. That’s because of the strict privacy and anonymity rules intended to protect children who are...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 12, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
A family court judgment published on BAILII and TNA last month exposed prolonged harassment of the parents of a small child who had been conceived by sperm donation – by a man they’d met on social media who they thought had unselfishly offered to help them...
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