by Guest Post | Dec 15, 2023 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
Further to our post on the Court of Appeal judgment in April 2022, ‘K v K – Court of Appeal give guidance on fact-finding hearings and on MIAMs’, here is an in-depth analysis of the developments in the Re K case. Many thanks for this guest post by...
by Lucy R | Nov 30, 2023 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
I begin this post by saying frankly that the transcript I have just read is shocking. If I had been told what was in it, I would not have believed it. Not so much the individual errors, but the combination of so many things gone wrong in one single transcript. Before...
by Louise Tickle | Nov 30, 2023 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
“If you want to know my view on the transparency project, it is not supportive. I have always felt these cases are deeply private, and my judgments are there really for the parents, to help them, to help the families, they are not for public consumption or to allow...
by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2023 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
In August this year, a journalist attempted to observe the first day of a multi-day final hearing in a private children case. She was refused access by the judge, His Honour Judge Haigh. The following day, another journalist [Louise Tickle, who is a member of The...
by reporting watch team | Nov 19, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI
We wrote about the Cafcass in-house psychology service ‘that no one seemed to know about’ back in April and again in October. We received replies on 10 November from Cafcass Governance to our follow-up freedom of information questions. We weren’t...
by Lucy R | Nov 5, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
Some news. The Reporting Pilot now running in 3 courts will shortly be extended to Magistrates in those courts. The Reporting Pilot will be rolled out in a number of other courts from January 2024. As with the first 3 pilot courts the new courts will first bring...
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