by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a quote from the website of the UK Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, on the release of ‘Improving the family court response to domestic abuse’, a 29-page report on her work to date on establishing a mechanism to monitor the way allegations of...
by reporting watch team | Nov 27, 2021 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
The Justice Committee is currently conducting an inquiry : Open justice: court reporting in the digital age The inquiry is not specific to family justice but it does encompass issues of relevance to the Family Court – so we made written submissions. One of our...
by reporting watch team | Nov 27, 2021 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Alongside the main Transparency Review report, the lead judges of the Financial Remedies Court also published a consultation last month seeking views on a proposed ‘reporting permission order’ that is envisaged for regulating access to and use of documents...
by Guest Post | Nov 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a guest post from Sir James Munby. Sir James is the previous President of the Family Division. Hard on the heels of the CONSULTATION ON A PROPOSAL FOR A STANDARD REPORTING PERMISSION ORDER IN FINANCIAL REMEDY PROCEEDINGS published by Mostyn J and HHJ Hess, the...
by Guest Post | Oct 30, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
A comment by Sir James Munby on the Consultation Paper dated 28 October 2021 published by the FRC Lead Judges In a paper which I prepared for the recent At A Glance Conference on 13 October 2021 I suggested, in the course of a wide-ranging discussion of accountability...
by Lucy R | Oct 29, 2021 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The President’s Transparency Review has finally concluded. After a period long enough to gestate both an elephant and a human baby consecutively, was it worth the wait? Our response is an emphatic ‘Yes’. The president has both acknowledged the massive, weighty,...
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