ASSISTED DYING: WHAT ROLE FOR THE PANEL? Thoughts on the latest (amended) proposals
Sir James Munby expresses his serious concerns over current legislative proposals for judicial involvement in the approval of assisted dying decisions and over the lack of public scrutiny that the process might permit.
Happy Tenth Birthday to TP!
In fact, like the Queen, The Transparency Project has two birthdays. One in early 2014, when we emerged from the primordial online soup into a loose multi-cellular organism, and one when we were officially formed as a charity on 29 April 2015, with charitable...
Completing care proceedings in less than 26 weeks
I went to Cardiff Family Court as a legal blogger in two care cases this week. Reporting on them might give an inkling into how the most recent ‘refocus’ on the Public Law Outline (PLO) 26 weeks time limit is working out in the real world. We wrote about the refocus...
Abbasi – the Supreme Court finally hands down judgment on appeal about injunctions made to protect the identity of hospital staff providing end of life care
A significant judgment about transparency was handed down by the Supreme Court this week – Abbasi and another v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2025] UKSC 15. The case of Abbasi has been very long running, as has the case of Haastrup that has...
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