by reporting watch team | Dec 2, 2025 | FCReportingWatch, Trends
We’ve not seen this publicised yet, which is a little surprising as the Ministry of Justice is very keen on the Pathfinder approach in private law. We mentioned in our recent post on the HC Justice Committee session that judges, the Domestic Abuse Commissioner...
by reporting watch team | Oct 28, 2025 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Section 1(2A) of the Children Act 1989, as amended in 2014, states that, with regard to applications for child arrangements orders under Section 8: A court … is as respects each parent … to presume, unless the contrary is shown, that involvement of that parent in the...
by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2025 | FCReportingWatch, FOI, Trends
We’ve sent in a series of requests under the Freedom of Information Act about the review of the presumption of parental involvement since the ‘urgent’ review was announced by the government in 2020. We have been asking about the continued delay in publishing the...
by Julie Doughty | Dec 13, 2024 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Resources, Trends
Two important resources for family court users and professionals were published at the end of November: a webinar to ‘Refocus on the Public Law Outline (PLO)’ and a Family Court Annual Report that covers the year 2023-2024 – although it’s the first annual report...
by reporting watch team | Aug 14, 2024 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends
We hear a lot about ‘secret’ family courts because of reporting restrictions and family privacy, but there is more to genuine transparency than holding processes out in the open. To understand how a system is operating we need information based on reliable data across...
by Guest Post | Aug 8, 2024 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
This is a guest post from Femi Ogunlende. Femi is a barrister at No5 Chambers. This post discusses the current approach to domestic abuse in financial remedy proceedings. For those short on time and unable to read the post in full, the key conclusions you need to be...
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