by Lucy R | Feb 8, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Last week at a hearing in Cardiff, His Honour Judge Furness KC made orders authorising measures which amounted to a deprivation of the liberty (DoL) of a teenage girl. I observed the hearing under the new Reporting Pilot that is operating in that court. As noted by...
by reporting watch team | Feb 6, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
In response to the Harm Report published back in June 2020, the government announced an urgent review of the legal presumption that continuing involvement with both parents is in a child’s welfare (introduced and added to the Children Act 1989 in 2014). This...
by Lucy R | Feb 3, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
Yesterday I spent the day at Cardiff Family Court. I attended as a legal blogger, making use of the new Reporting Pilot which launched on Monday (having been unable to attend earlier in the week). I observed two hearings, and I will be able to write a bit about those...
by Guest Post | Feb 2, 2023 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Lottie Park-Morton, Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Gloucestershire, who is currently undertaking a PhD on surrogacy and children’s rights. Lottie tweets as @cparkmorton The recent case of Re C (Surrogacy: Consent) [2023] EWCA Civ 16...
by Paul M | Jan 24, 2023 | FCReportingWatch
For too long, transparency in the family courts had been put in the “too-difficult box”, but with the forthcoming court reporting pilot it was to be hoped that the right balance could be struck between confidence and confidentiality. So said Sir Andrew McFarlane...
by reporting watch team | Jan 22, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Guidance Note, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
As the Transparency Reporting Pilot is about to launch, we thought it would be helpful if we gathered together some helpful tips for those who may be about to encounter journalists and legal bloggers in their courtrooms for the first time. Tip number one : Don’t...
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