by Lucy R | May 11, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division’s Transparency Review Panel put out a call for evidence in the early months of the year, before Covid-19 darkened our doors. Today the several-times-extended deadline for that call for evidence fell due. The Transparency...
by Paul M | May 11, 2020 | Comment, Transparency News, Trends
Justice suspended Nothing better represents our idea of justice being not only done but seen to be done than the spectacle of trial by jury in the Crown Court. The arrangement of the physical space of the courtroom, the royal coat of arms behind the raised bench...
by Jack Harrison | May 3, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Reflecting on where you have been is a useful exercise. I don’t mean that in the LinkedIn sense: I am not about to start posting pictures of hikers atop a mountain with the caption ‘INSPIRATION’, nor am I about to share how I woke up at 4am to drink a green tea carrot...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | May 3, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
I wrote a piece for the blog back in March 2020 about the case of Z (A Child: committal proceeding) [2020] EWFC B5 (24 January 2020). It concerned a private children law matter where the father had tampered with a drug testing report – which would have shown...
by Paul M | Apr 29, 2020 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends
Who is responsible for publishing the official approved version of judgments of the courts? Where should we look to find the latest, in some cases corrected, version of a court judgment? These are not new questions, but the sudden swerve to virtual justice has thrown...
by reporting watch team | Apr 19, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in Family Law for February 2020 at Family [2020] Fam Law 265. Transparency Templates The President has published some new ‘Transparency Templates’, which are draft orders for...
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