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A curious headline: “Senior judges voice alarm after private deal in oligarch divorce”

A curious headline: “Senior judges voice alarm after private deal in oligarch divorce”

by Lucy R | Jan 2, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

We saw this headline in The Times just after Christmas. What on earth is it all about? We’ve read and re-read it and to be frank, we’re still not completely sure. The ‘oligarch divorce’ in question is that of Farkhad Akhmedov and his ex wife...
The Equal Treatment Bench Book – guidance on fairness for judges

The Equal Treatment Bench Book – guidance on fairness for judges

by reporting watch team | Dec 31, 2021 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Resources

UPDATE 25.03.24: We’ve now seen that there’s a revised 2023 version here. We’ve just noticed that a revised version of this lengthy document (566 pages!) has been issued online, so we looked for any references to transparency. What we found is brief...
Authorities seeking to silence families?

Authorities seeking to silence families?

by Julie Doughty | Dec 21, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch

On 24 November, the BBC broadcast the story above. The Court of Protection (CoP) judgment, PH & Anor v Brighton And Hove City Council [2021] EWCOP 63, has now been published on BAILII. The full name of the case is: PH and RH v (1) Brighton and Hove City Council...
Griffiths v Tickle – a lawyer’s view

Griffiths v Tickle – a lawyer’s view

by Lucy R | Dec 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News

This post originally appeared on the author’s blog Pink Tape and is reposted here with permission (NB, disclosure : the author is the Chair of The Transparency Project). Most of the newspapers carried the story on Saturday: ‘Andrew Griffiths found to have...
Membership of the Transparency Implementation Group announced

Membership of the Transparency Implementation Group announced

by reporting watch team | Dec 6, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

Today, the Ministry of Justice has announced the makeup of the TIG – the Transparency Implementation Group who will take forward the recommendations made in the President’s Review published at the end of October, that we wrote about here. The group is...
Speaking out in the public interest and children’s privacy rights? The Eleanor Bradford adoption breakdown saga

Speaking out in the public interest and children’s privacy rights? The Eleanor Bradford adoption breakdown saga

by Alice T | Dec 5, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Media stories this week of an adoption breakdown, from the perspective of an adoptive mother who felt she had no option but to ask for her older child (15) to return to care, have provoked lots of comment, some of it scathing. We’ve gathered the reports and broadcasts...
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