by Tatiana Tkacukova | Dec 22, 2019 | Comment, Transparency News
This is a post from Tatiana Tkacukova, lecturer in English Language at Birmingham City University. There are many concerns expressed about the quality of advice now available to parties in family court cases, as so few have lawyers. This blog post discusses the...
by Lucy R | Dec 20, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane (that’s ‘Top Judge’ to you), has sent us his Christmas letter. Adopting the traditional format of the ‘View from the President’s Chambers’, Sir Andrew tackles a number of...
by Alice T | Dec 6, 2019 | Analysis, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Update 1st October 2020 – The transcript and podcast are now available at the FJC website here: https://www.judiciary.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/advisory-bodies/fjc/conference-debates/debates/ Transparency Project members have attended the annual debates...
by Lucy R | Nov 23, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This week has seen reports in the legal press of a speech in which the President of the Family Division set out an idea for a research project about news reports containing accounts of how family courts have handled domestic abuse claims. See for example : Press...
by Lucy R | Nov 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column for October 2019 in Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1208(1). Cape v Dring In July 2019, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring...
by David Burrows | Nov 22, 2019 | Comment, Legal blogging, Transparency News
In family proceedings, some appeals go to the Court of Appeal, some (mostly) to a High Court judge in the Family Division of the High Court or the Family Court. Routinely Court of Appeal appeals are heard in open court and the parties, other than children, are named...
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