by reporting watch team | Jul 19, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
Some good news. Two bits actually. Firstly, the President has recently announced that the Reporting Pilot will be extended to cover Magistrates from October. Better late than never – the pilot will be ten months into its year long run by that time, so unless the...
by Lucy R | Jul 18, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
QLR stands for ‘Qualified Legal Representative’, which sounds quite simple. However, in light of a recent article about the topic of QLRs, we thought it would be helpful to give some basic explanations of some of the terminology and the scheme. The article...
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...
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