Stumbling across a paradigm case – part 3 (how I did it)

by reporting watch team | Sep 12, 2021 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

PART 3 : HOW DID YOU DO IT? This is the third part of a four part blog series. Part 1 is here, and links to parts 2 and 4. Reminder : To ensure that the child and family are not identified I am not allowed to reveal whether the child is a boy or a girl, but to make...

Stumbling across a paradigm case – part 2 (the case itself)

by Lucy R | Sep 12, 2021 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

PART 2 : THE CASE This is the second part of a four part blog series. Part 1 is here, and links to parts 3 and 4. A reminder: To ensure that the child and family are not identified I am not allowed to reveal whether the child is a boy or a girl, but to make the posts...

Stumbling across a paradigm case – the hardest legal blogging expedition so far…

by Lucy R | Sep 12, 2021 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

PART 1 : INTRODUCTION This series of posts is about a case dealt with in the Family Court at Hull in August, in which a judge ordered a transfer of residence of a young child from the mother’s care into the father’s care, following long running proceedings and...

Minister for Justice thanks The Transparency Project

by Julie Doughty | Jul 29, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

Recently, we noticed there had been a Parliamentary Question about family courts on 7 June, from Robert Halfon MP, as follows: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve transparency in the Family Court process....

If you don’t like the rules, change ’em

by reporting watch team | Jul 27, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News

In 2017 we asked the Family Procedure Rule Committee to consider temporarily amending the Family Procedure Rules by way of a temporary pilot scheme to test out allowing ‘legal bloggers’ into family court hearings, alongside journalists (they have been...

The necessity for a care order

by Julie Doughty | Apr 28, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

I recently attended, as a legal blogger, a care hearing conducted in Wales by HHJ Gareth Jones. I’m not going to go into factual details of the case but will make some observations about process in virtual hearings from the point of view of a legal blogger, and about...