Podcastarama

Sarah Phillimore and Lucy Reed have created a podcast in which they use the recent “Protection” episode of Silent Witness as a discussion point, to engage with issues around child protection and family justice. This is a first podcast for the Transparency...

Wood for Trees

Transparency is about understanding not information. Quality not quantity. Substance not form. So more judgments ≠ more transparency. And more open courts ≠ more transparency. And more and more and more and more and more information on a single website ≠ more...

The transparency debate rolls on

Peggy Ray (Goodman Ray Solicitors) opens December’s edition of ‘Family Law’ with ‘comment’ that adds to the wider discussion about transparency. (Family Law is subscription only content I’m afraid for those following the debate who don’t have access to it. I always...

Other news on media and children’s privacy

More news on campaigning for children’s privacy, as the Weller case goes to the Supreme Court. Hannah Weller has started a campaign to stop the media publishing photographs of children without parents’ consent. I thought JK Rowling had already established...

The Children Act – a novel approach

What is it like being a judge? More particularly, what is it like being a High Court judge with the responsibility of deciding matters of life and death? Though cast as a novel, with a story to engage the reader, this is what The Children Act is really about. Its...