by Lucy R | Feb 20, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
I made an impromptu visit to the family court in Oxford last week, and was able to sit in on most of the hearings in a District Judge’s list. I was permitted to report the details of each of the hearings I attended, subject to preserving the anonymity of the...
by Emma Nottingham | Dec 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in Family Law for December 2019 at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1476. Case background In September, I attended the hearing of the the Tafida Raqeeb case (Raqeeb (by her litigation...
by Lucy R | Nov 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column for October 2019 in Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1208(1). Cape v Dring In July 2019, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring...
by David Burrows | Nov 22, 2019 | Comment, Legal blogging, Transparency News
In family proceedings, some appeals go to the Court of Appeal, some (mostly) to a High Court judge in the Family Division of the High Court or the Family Court. Routinely Court of Appeal appeals are heard in open court and the parties, other than children, are named...
by reporting watch team | Nov 8, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Project, Transparency News
We are rather chuffed to say that the day before yesterday we unexpectedly won an award. Wednesday night was the Bar Pro Bono awards ceremony, and we were in the running for the pro bono innovation award, as a result of our work getting legal blogging established in...
by Lucy R | Nov 6, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
As it happens I wasn’t, and the lawyer who asked me this had assumed wrongly. I was attending court just to see what was on that day, and to use the legal blogging pilot to try to report a typical day in the life of a circuit judge. But I’d stumbled upon a...
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