Access to family court hearings: the legal bloggers pilot
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 1465. THE NEW PILOT SCHEME FROM OCTOBER 2018 We are very pleased with the outcome of our application to the Family...
Anonymisation Guidance – a curtain of secrecy?
The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew MacFarlane issued some guidance last week on the anonymisation of published judgments in family court cases. You can read that guidance here. The Daily Mail reported this as follows : Curtain of secrecy should be...
Open court for appeals to family judges
A number of appeals from lesser judges in the family courts were transferred from being heard in the Court of Appeal to be heard by a judge – mostly High Court judges – in the Family Court (from 14 April 2014). Since then there has been sporadic debate as to whether...
Robed in confusion – are wigs and gowns a symbol of open justice?
Would the wearing of wigs and gowns by barristers help send a message about open justice and transparency, as a senior judge in the Court of Protection has recently suggested?
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