Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS ITV, Wales Online, BBC Wales, the...
A cheery post on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service blog recently announced that developers were now working on on Making hearing lists more accessible to court and tribunal users This is long overdue. HMCTS has had court listings on its list, as it were, ever since...
This post isn’t going to try and answer the question we’ve posed in the title (sorry) – but it is intended to try and briefly summarise some of what has been happening lately around the topic of family court transparency in financial remedies cases,...
This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division[1]. In relation to transparency in the Financial Remedies Court there are further signs that the tectonic plates are shifting. BT v CU In November 2021 Mostyn J set the cat among the...
The minutes of the Family Justice Rules Committee (FJRC) meetings held on 7 February and 7 March 2022 are now transparently published. This is speedy compared to previously, and compared to the time it takes other hard-pressed family justice...
This article was originally published in Family Law ([2022] Fam Law 422) in April 2022, and is reproduced here with kind permission. In October 2021 the President published a memorandum about experts. In it, Sir Andrew reminded us of four key questions to be asked in...
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