by Lucy R | Jul 28, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, Notorious, Project, Transparency News
We’re very excited to announce that The Transparency Project has secured its first real chunk of grant funding, meaning we can move onto a new level in the work that we do. The brilliant Legal Education Foundation have awarded us a grant of £49,500 to fund two...
by Lucy R | Jul 27, 2016 | Transparency News
Our chair Lucy Reed recently interviewed Philip Marshall QC, Chair of the Family Law Bar Association, for Counsel Magazine. She managed to squeeze in a question about transparency, and here is the relevant extract : Although he hasn’t mentioned it as a hot topic, I...
by Lucy R | Jul 25, 2016 | Transparency News, Trends
Our FOI request The Transparency Project has been concerned for some time about judgments from family cases being published where the anonymisation was incomplete or non-existent. Since formation we have regularly noticed or been notified of such anonymisation errors,...
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...
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