by Alice T | Mar 11, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
Last week the Court of Appeal heard journalist Melanie Newman’s appeal against an order against disclosure of the court papers behind a flawed decision that a young child should be adopted (subsequently overturned by the Court of Appeal with the child going home). I...
by reporting watch team | Feb 28, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
As reported last month, oral evidence sessions are now underway as part of the President of the Family Division’s Transparency Review. See our earlier post here : Family Court Transparency Review – An Update Transparency Project Chair Lucy Reed will be...
by reporting watch team | Feb 28, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is the text of a proposal submitted to the Law Commission in February 2021, by The Right Honourable Sir James Munby (President of the Family Division of the High Court from 2013-2018), His Honour Clifford Bellamy (Retired Family Circuit Judge, Patron of The...
by Paul M | Feb 23, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, Notorious, Transparency News
Last week the High Court made a widely publicised decision declaring that a government minister and his department had acted unlawfully in relation to the award of PPE procurement contracts in the early weeks of the pandemic. The case is called R (Good Law Project and...
by reporting watch team | Feb 18, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This month the powers that be have decided to move the Family Procedure Rules (FPRs) from their longstanding home at justice.gov.uk to the giant gov.uk website. Whilst the justice pages were not perfect they were easy enough to locate from the justice home page and...
by Lucy R | Feb 10, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Things have been quiet on this front since evidence was submitted in the spring of 2020. The week before last we became aware that the President and his panel were finally starting the oral evidence sessions, but they were due to start the very next day and they were...
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