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days., especially in cases about children Typically they warn that the names of the children and family members must not be published.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...
by Julie Doughty | May 31, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The Financial Remedies Court sub-group of the Transparency Implementation Group (TIG ) has published a 164 page report. This refers to cases about financial remedies on divorce i.e resolving issues between divorcing couples about their income and assets – they are not...
by reporting watch team | May 26, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
On 28 April we reported that the Reporting Pilot was being extended to cover private law cases. That new regime came into play on 15 May. Reporting Pilot extended to private law hearings (and other TIG news) Although the bulletin which announced the extension also set...
by Julie Doughty | May 12, 2023 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
This is a troubling story about three children subject to care applications by the Vale of Glamorgan Council; the final hearing took place last month and I attended Cardiff Family Court under the Reporting Pilot as a legal blogger. There are far too many (more than...
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