by Julie Doughty | Jul 4, 2017 | Comment, Court of Protection, Transparency News, Trends
With many thanks to Barbara Rich for explaining what this all means for people involved in CoP cases. Context and background When the Court of Protection was established in its present form in 2007, the relevant court rules were written to cover two separate...
by Lucy Reed | Apr 11, 2017 | Events, Transparency News, Trends
On 5 April we held our panel discussion asking this question. It was a really constructive debate and we would like to thank all those who took part, both the panel and audience. At the event we launched our Media Guide for journalists, which you can read or download...
by reporting watch team | Feb 5, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Two judgments have recently been published by Mr Justice Bodey in a financial remedy case. The case is interesting in terms of the law around financial remedies, and from a transparency perspective. You can read the main decision on BAILII here : X v X (application...
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 Alice T | Jul 17, 2016 | Trends
We have received around 120 replies so far, from 173 English and Welsh councils asked about adoption performance management (including ‘targets’), under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is the second stage of research we began late last year into whether, and...
by Julie Doughty | May 22, 2016 | Comment, Trends
Last Sunday, the Prime Minister was widely quoted from the Sunday Times as being ‘unashamedly pro-adoption’ in describing the new Children and Social Work Bill announced later last week in the Queen’s Speech. The aims of the provisions in the Bill on...
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