by Lucy R | Mar 18, 2016 | Resources
Powerpoint presentation about the work of The Transparency Project, delivered to The Law Society Family Law Committee, 17 March 2016
by Julie Doughty | Mar 13, 2016 | Cases, Comment
Family courts hit the mainstream news headlines this week. Here is a brief summary of transparency related matters. Dr Waney Squier and expertise on non-accidental head injuries and babies The esoteric subject of an expert witness in the family courts came up, because...
by Lucy R | Mar 12, 2016 | Explanation
UPDATE FEB 2017 : In light of the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Hackney v Williams (see here) we will be looking at our guidance note to see if it needs amendment or updating. At The Transparency Project we tend to draft collaboratively, which can be a bit...
by Lucy R | Feb 29, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation
There have been a number of news reports today concerning the grant of legal aid to the father of Poppi Worthington, who was named by a judge as having sexually assaulted his daughter before she died. They are in very similar terms in (for example) The Times and The...
by Paul M | Feb 25, 2016 | Court of Protection, Transparency News
This post follows my experience attending a Court of Protection hearing for the first time, under its new transparency pilot. The last few years have seen a gradual process of opening up the Family Courts to greater public scrutiny, partly to comply better with the...
by Lucy R | Feb 24, 2016 | Explanation, Transparency News
UPDATE FEB 2017 : In light of the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Hackney v Williams (see here) we will be looking at our guidance note to see if it needs amendment or updating. Following on from the guidance about recording that we published in December 2015,...
by Lucy R | Feb 21, 2016 | Comment, Trends
Louise Tickle’s article about “Annie” (or Surviving Safeguarding as she is known on her blog) was published this weekend : ‘I saw his fluffy little head going out the door’: one woman’s fight to keep her baby – Annie’s son was removed...
by Paul M | Feb 15, 2016 | Transparency News
Members of the Transparency Project have noticed that the rate at which family court judgments are sent to BAILII, and the way in which they are reported, has been inconsistent over the past two years, despite the guidance issued by the court’s President in...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 13, 2016 | Comment
As Paul Magrath noted lasted week, The Spectator published this article by Lara Prendergast on 6 February : Beware the baby-snatchers. He explained the misrepresentation of family court reporting in this story. Another unsubstantiated claim made by Lara Prendergast...
by Paul M | Feb 7, 2016 | Comment
When, recently, a popular radio and TV presenter died, several tabloid newspapers splashed their front pages with the news that Terry Wogan had lost his “secret battle with cancer”. The implication was that he, together with his medical team and close...
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