by Paul M | Jun 10, 2015 | Comment, Transparency News
What about cleaning the dirty window first, asks David Burrows, of DB Family Law in response to yesterday’s post by Paul M, The Emperor’s New Clothes – or Delusions of Candour. He argues that transparency is all very well, but the law itself that needs to be clear.
by Paul M | Jun 9, 2015 | Comment, Notorious, Transparency News
In a piece entitled The Transparency Delusion, published on the Stowe Family Law blog, John Bolch argues that the whole idea of transparency in family law proceedings is futile. We don’t agree and this post explains why.
by Sarah P | Jun 3, 2015 | Events
With no small amount of trepidation, we gathered at the NCVO venue in London on June 1st. We had no idea how it was going to go, if we had been over ambitious in our scope, if the different participants really had anything to say to one another that could lead to...
by Julie Doughty | May 26, 2015 | Cases
This is a post about a case that is only indirectly a family court type case, because of an agreement* made between the parents, on separating in 2009, to try to protect their son from learning about the historic past in a way that would be detrimental to the child....
by Lucy R | May 10, 2015 | Comment, Transparency News, Trends
This weekend I have been at the Family Law Bar Association annual conference at Cumberland Lodge, which this year has an international family law theme. Yesterday we heard two really illuminating presentations from foreign judges, who told us all about how they do...
by Julie Doughty | Apr 28, 2015 | Court of Protection, Transparency News
The Court of Protection was established by the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to make decisions about the care and treatment of people who lack mental capacity because of conditions like dementia, or have learning disabilities or mental health problems. These cases often...
by Alice T | Apr 25, 2015 | Cases, Notorious
This is a thorough, thoughtful piece by Melanie Griffiths, broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Report’ on Thursday. It looks at how campaigners misinterpreted allegations of parental child abuse as evidence of concealed ritual satanic abuse, sent it viral and caused harm....
by Lucy R | Apr 22, 2015 | Events
Here are brief details of the speakers/participants at the Multidisciplinary Conference on 1 June Cathy Ashley – Chief Executive of Family Rights Group, England and Wales Family Rights Group (www.frg.org.uk) is the charity in England and Wales that advises and...
by Lucy R | Apr 13, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Trends
We’ve been having some discussions behind the scenes about jigsaw identification here at TP recently. Not very transparent I grant you, but the problem is that our discussions have centred upon some judgments that one commenter was anxious might have given away...
by Paul M | Apr 4, 2015 | Cases, Trends
This is both a summary and a review of BBC’s flagship current affairs programme, Panorama, which last week tackled the issue of legal aid cuts and the phenomenal rise in the number of litigants in person (LIPs) now using the courts in civil and family cases. The...
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