by Paul M | Aug 17, 2016 | Resources
Guidelines on Reporting Restrictions in the Criminal Courts issued jointly by the Judiciary, the News Media Association, the Society of Editors and the Medial Lawyers Association have now been revised, as of May 2016. You can download the full PDF here. We have now...
by Lucy R | Aug 11, 2016 | Events
With apologies for the delay, here are the available presentations from the Child Protection Conference on 3 June 2016. We have also recently published a transcript of the panel discussion that took place on the day, which you can find here. Andy Bilson : Presentation...
by Sarah P | Aug 10, 2016 | Events
Panel Discussion CPConf2016 3rd June 2016 This is a partial transcript typed up by Sarah Phillimore from the audio recording of the discussion at the end of CPConf2016 which took place at Birmingham on June 3rd 2016. Some parts are incomplete as the recording was not...
by Lucy R | Aug 9, 2016 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, Notorious
A story under this headline appeared on the Your Local Guardian site on 8 August : Former MP John Hemming urges appeals court to look in to case of teenager related to public figure. It suggests that ex-MP John Hemming is going to be launching an appeal to the Court...
by Lucy R | Aug 6, 2016 | Cases, Comment, Notorious
Child killer’s £2m legal aid: How taxpayers funded Ellie Butler’s warped father’s battle for custody of the little girl he went on to murder Ben Butler, 36, was given a ‘blank cheque’ by taxpayers to fund his lawyers Ellie’s loving...
by Paul M | Jul 29, 2016 | Court of Protection
Although it was announced quite openly, and written about here on this blog, we suspect that the Court of Protection’s transparency pilot scheme has not actually resulted in any attendance of cases by members of the public unconnected with a case. One reason for...
by Lucy R | Jul 29, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, Notorious
We have previously written about the tragic case of Ellie Butler a number of times on this blog : Ellie Butler – drawing together some strands and discussions Ellie Butler – some useful resources Lessons from the Ellie Butler Case Lucy Reed also wrote a...
by Lucy R | Jul 28, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, Notorious, Project, Transparency News
We’re very excited to announce that The Transparency Project has secured its first real chunk of grant funding, meaning we can move onto a new level in the work that we do. The brilliant Legal Education Foundation have awarded us a grant of £49,500 to fund two...
by Lucy R | Jul 27, 2016 | Transparency News
Our chair Lucy Reed recently interviewed Philip Marshall QC, Chair of the Family Law Bar Association, for Counsel Magazine. She managed to squeeze in a question about transparency, and here is the relevant extract : Although he hasn’t mentioned it as a hot topic, I...
by Sarah P | Jul 27, 2016 | Explanation
Lessons from the Ellie Butler Case – Event on October 3rd 2016 Members of the Transparency Project will be speaking at an event organised by the London Regional Group of Resolution on October 3rd entitled ‘Lessons from the Ellie Butler Case’. The...
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