Flexible Operating Hours in court: new pilot under scrutiny
Can flexible operating hours (FOH) make better use of court buildings and facilities to provide a justice service outside traditional court hours for all users?
Freedom versus responsibility when the press report on care proceedings: Round Two.
On 22nd October 2018 the Sun published a second in its line of ‘investigative reporting’ into the child protection system, titled ‘Parents who’ve lost kids in shadowy secret courts slam ruthless millionaires cashing in on UK’s fostering...
Government plans to overhaul divorce laws
A long awaited reform of the divorce laws in England and Wales now seems close to becoming a reality, after Buzzfeed News revealed on 7 September that “justice secretary David Gauke is set to announce a consultation on no-fault divorce in which he will call for...Reporting restrictions and accountability in the family courts
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the July 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 917. A sequence of lectures delivered about – or touching upon the subject of – transparency have been delivered in recent...
Crisis in care – crisis in confidence?
In November 2017 Family Rights Group launched an enquiry into the causes of the increasing numbers of children in care and in care proceedings. No doubt there are many such causes. As we noted in September [2017] Fam Law 1048, those causes probably include...
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