by Julie D | Oct 26, 2022 | Events, Resources
‘A good law gone bad’ is how the Hague Convention on International Abduction was described in a session organised by the Filia Hague Mothers project at an international feminist conference held in Cardiff over the weekend. The Convention was drafted in...
by reporting watch team | Dec 31, 2021 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Resources
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 What we found is brief and out of date. The preface by Lady Justice King explains that the book is a...
by Lucy R | Oct 25, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Resources
There has been a lot of discussion recently about experts in the family court, prompted partly as a result of the recent publication of a ‘memorandum’ on the topic by the President of the Family Division, and partly as a result of some recent press...
by reporting watch team | Jun 7, 2020 | Guidance Note, Resources
This short guide explains what remote court hearings are and how they will work. It answers some common queries that users may have. We hope that it will be useful for parents involved in family court cases about their children – or for anyone else involved in...
by Julie D | Oct 27, 2019 | Resources, Transparency News
Some readers may remember the ‘research-led family justice system’ envisaged in the Norgrove Family Justice Review in 2011. However, we’re still waiting and, as Sir James Munby explained in this interview, family court professionals can sometimes...
by reporting watch team | Aug 11, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Resources
Now that the legal blogging pilot has been extended in duration we thought it would be helpful to produce a short information leaflet that can be provided to people whose cases a legal blogger wants to observe. We hope that the information will give both litigants and...
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