by Julie Doughty | Jul 18, 2023 | FCReportingWatch
This is the conclusion of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales who has published a report about family courts which, unsurprisingly, criticises the lack of government action on the commitments it made in 2020, following the ‘Harm Report’. The...
by Alice T | Jul 17, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
It seems there’s nothing quite like a Family Justice Council (open) annual meeting to get long awaited guidance over the line. Here’s where we’d got to this time last year. Keehan J chaired this year’s open meeting at pace and had pretty...
by Guest Post | Jul 6, 2023 | Analysis, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
A response to the Report of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group of The Transparency Implementation Group This is a guest post by Sir James Munby in response to the report of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group of the Transparency Implementation Group, which can be read...
by Guest Post | Jun 22, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Ian Brownhill. Ian is a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers who specialises in public, humanrights and regulatory law. Much of his work revolves around medical decision making for adults who lack capacity to make treatment decisions and for...
by reporting watch team | Jun 18, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Most Family Court orders have some sort of confidentiality warning on them these days., especially in cases about children Typically they warn that the names of the children and family members must not be published. The template orders and precedent libraries that...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 4, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
It is now 14 years since the Family Procedure Rules were amended to allow ‘accredited media representatives’ i.e. journalists to attend most types of family court hearings, and more than four years since ‘duly authorised lawyers’ i.e. legal...
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