by Lucy R | Apr 10, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Trends
On 8 April, I went to Stoke-on-Trent for the day. Of course, I didn’t physically go there, but I was able to ‘attend’ the Family Court there, by joining a series of five telephone hearings being handled over the course of a day by a District Judge. I attended using...
by Lucy R | Apr 7, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Trends
Everyone in the family court is working hard to try and keep the show on the road at a time when we can’t hold face to face hearings. There has been a lot of information and feedback from judges and lawyers, but until we published an impactful blog post by Celia...
by Lucy R | Jan 31, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Trends
This week, two family court judgments were published that caught my eye, and sparked some discussion on twitter. This is just a brief post, not so much about the substance of the cases, but about the transparency aspects of them. The first was a judgment from District...
by Paul M | Oct 1, 2019 | Comment, Transparency News, Trends
For all practical purposes, the free legal database run by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is an official source of judgments from senior courts that any member of the public or any journalist can use. But while anyone can read individual...
by reporting watch team | Jul 3, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Following on from our post summarising the key recommendations from Mr Justice Keehan’s Public Law Working Group which can be found here, we now turn our attention to the issue of private law. The Child Arrangements Programme (the ‘CAP’) was introduced as a...
by reporting watch team | Jul 3, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Today, the President of the Family Court Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, published interim reports from his Public and Private Law Working Groups. The President opened with a short statement on his concerns around both the rising volume of care cases before the...
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