by Lucy R | Jul 31, 2015 | Resources
www.familycourtinfo.org.uk is a site containing basic information and links to resources. It was developed for family court users in the Bristol, Gloucester, Bath and Weston Family Court area, so lots of the information is local to that, but you may still find it...
by Lucy R | Jul 30, 2015 | Resources
UPDATE JUN 2024 – we are reviewing our documentation and will republish it here when that is complete. The linked document below is no longer current, but we have left it live for information purposes whilst we review. Earlier this year a team of lawyers in...
by Sarah P | Jul 24, 2015 | Comment
I wrote one blog post this week which I thought was about one thing – the irritating promotion of a dangerous untruth that the UK is the ‘only’ country in Europe or even the World that permits ‘forced adoption’. Interestingly, the focus...
by Sarah P | Jul 23, 2015 | Comment
The continuing myth that the UK is the ‘only’ country that permits ‘forced adoption’. It is ironic to note that the source of the title quote, so often used by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett has itself often been falsely attitributed...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 17, 2015 | Comment
Or – Will we ever have a responsible, regulated press in the UK? Here at the Transparency Project, we are always conscious of the need to balance the interests of freedom of expression with privacy and the public with private interests. These principles were...
by Paul M | Jun 26, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Notorious, Transparency News
We believe that transparency in family justice relies on recognition of human rights. Essentially, achieving transparency in a way that balances everyone’s rights (including the rights of children) can be explained through three important Articles in the European...
by Lucy R | Jun 23, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, Notorious
Christopher Booker wrote about the case of Ethan Williams in The Telegraph this weekend, in an article entitled : When judges defy instinct, it is children who pay the price – We were presented with two flatly opposing views of the story of Rebecca Minnock, who...
by Sarah P | Jun 23, 2015 | Comment
The issue of recording what is said between parents and social workers in meetings or assessments was raised by parents at #CPConf2015. This sparked a lot of interest, following Louise Tickle’s article for the Guardian on 17th June 2015 – ‘Social...
by Lucy R | Jun 22, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, Notorious
We have been alerted to an article in the Telegraph by Christopher Booker relating to the case of Ethan Williams (Minnock), which we have blogged about here : The missing mum case. We have written an article in response to that piece, and have invited the Telegraph to...
by Lucy R | Jun 11, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, Notorious
I went to Bristol Crown Court today [Update 22/6/15 : original date of publication was 11/6/15] to report on “the missing mum case” as it appears now to have been labelled. I asked a journalist sat outside with his film crew whether he was here for the...
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