by reporting watch team | Apr 7, 2026 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The most senior judge in family courts is the President of the Family Division and Court of Protection, inevitably known in the media as ‘top family judge’. Shortly after Sir James Munby was appointed President, from April 2014, he began an innovative...
by reporting watch team | Apr 2, 2026 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW, TRANSPARENCY etc The Sunday Times (£) began the...
by reporting watch team | Apr 1, 2026 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On 30 March, The Guardian published this editorial: ‘The Guardian view on family justice: transparency should help a flawed system to improve. Increased openness is a change for the better. But cuts have made the courts’ work far harder’ We have written...
by reporting watch team | Mar 27, 2026 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
This is an update on the post we wrote on 18 March about family court and defamation proceedings relating to a high profile couple, Professor James Tooley and Ms Cynthia Tooley/Stroud MBE. Two new judgments in Ms Tooley’s defamation case have been published – one...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 27, 2026 | Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
Earlier this week, the Court of Appeal heard an argument that the Open Justice Principle does not apply to the Court of Protection (CoP) and that an ‘urban myth’ had wrongly grown that any attempt to restrict public access to CoP proceedings was ‘a...
by reporting watch team | Mar 24, 2026 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
[For further developments, see: Censorship by Meta? Update on Pringle v Nervo, 17 May 2026.] This story by the Good Law Project on 19 March – Liv Nervo: Court calls Pringle’s ‘shameful’ conduct ‘abuse’- is about a mother who wanted to publicise her family court...
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