by Lucy R | Apr 17, 2016 | Cases, Comment, Transparency News
This weekend a judgment from care proceedings was published on BAILII, late on Friday night. This is not unusual. But what was unusual was the fact that it was a judgment relating to a fact finding hearing in respect of sexual abuse to a young child, in which all the...
by Paul M | Mar 24, 2016 | Court of Protection, Transparency News
Following my first experience of attending a Court of Protection hearing in public under the pilot scheme, described in an earlier post, I attended another case hearing last week to see how far it would follow the same pattern, and whether I could pick up some more...
by Paul M | Feb 25, 2016 | Court of Protection, Transparency News
This post follows my experience attending a Court of Protection hearing for the first time, under its new transparency pilot. The last few years have seen a gradual process of opening up the Family Courts to greater public scrutiny, partly to comply better with the...
by Lucy R | Feb 24, 2016 | Explanation, Transparency News
UPDATE FEB 2017 : In light of the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Hackney v Williams (see here) we will be looking at our guidance note to see if it needs amendment or updating. Following on from the guidance about recording that we published in December 2015,...
by Paul M | Feb 15, 2016 | Transparency News
Members of the Transparency Project have noticed that the rate at which family court judgments are sent to BAILII, and the way in which they are reported, has been inconsistent over the past two years, despite the guidance issued by the court’s President in...
by Lucy R | Feb 6, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Resources, Transparency News
Transparency Project members Lucy Reed and Louise Tickle wrote an article on this topic for Family Law Journal in January. Jordans have kindly given permission for that article to be republished here. If you would like to read the article please click here to download...
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