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...
by Judith Townend | Jun 24, 2021 | Analysis, Transparency News
Can transparency be in the limelight? Perhaps not, in scientific terms (or to avoid metaphor mixing), but court transparency is certainly having a moment. This is partly because of changes to the justice process expedited by COVID-19 and the...
by Paul M | Jun 18, 2021 | Comment, Transparency News
This week the Ministry of Justice announced its plans for the archiving and publication of judgments in a comprehensive new national database to be managed by The National Archives (TNA). Till now, the main official collection of court judgments has been the British...
by Alice T | Jun 14, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
At the latest Cafcass Open Board Meeting we asked about news that Cafcass are starting to trigger their prioritisation protocol and open allocation hubs for private law cases in some areas, and for an update on handling of domestic abuse cases. The Family Justice...
by Lucy R | Jun 7, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends
Last month Dr Julia Brophy, Marisol Smith with Jagbir Jhutti-Johal published an evaluation of the implementation of the President of the Family Division’s 2018 guidance on anonymisation of judgments. That guidance was based upon earlier work by Dr Brophy which...
by Paul M | Jun 4, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
HM Courts and Tribunals Service have recently published statistics about the number of hearings conducted remotely, ie by audio, video or on paper, compared with physical in-person hearings, over the course of the coronavirus lockdown. The statistics cover civil and...
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