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Behind Closed Doors – new book about the care system

Behind Closed Doors – new book about the care system

by Guest Post | Jan 20, 2022 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends

Behind Closed Doors: Why we break up families – and how to mend them, is due for publication by Virago on February 3. Here the Author, Polly Curtis, answers our questions. What’s your book, Behind Closed Doors, about? It’s about how the decision is made to...
Remote hearings: the HMCTS evaluation

Remote hearings: the HMCTS evaluation

by Paul M | Jan 4, 2022 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

Last month HM Courts and Tribunals Service published their own research into user experiences of remote hearings: Evaluation of remote hearings during the COVID 19 pandemic. The report analyses responses to surveys conducted between May and October 2020 with public...
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...
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