by Lucy R | Jan 1, 2015 | Transparency News
We have published our own response to the President’s Aug 14 consultation regarding Transparency here. Here are the other ones we’ve found. Association of Lawyers for Children response (our summary here) Resolution response (our summary here) Family Law...
by Lucy R | Dec 28, 2014 | Project
In December we held a meeting of the project group via video link and as a result you’ll now see that we have a number of new contributors to the blog, listed here. Welcome to David Burrows, Alice Twaite, David Chaplin and Jerry Lonsdale. Over the next little...
by Julie Doughty | Dec 22, 2014 | Comment
This article from the Press Gazette explains why the judge thought it right to identify the members of this family, who were involved in an international abduction case (or ‘tug of love’ in media-speak) What do people think? (I’ve yet to see how it...
by Sarah P | Dec 21, 2014 | Comment
Beyond all ideas of right and wrong there is a field – I will meet you there. Rumi On 11th November 2014 the Family Justice Council held its 8th Annual Debate and panel discussion at Westminster Central Hall. The topic for discussion was transparency....
by David Burrows | Dec 20, 2014 | Analysis, Comment
Amongst family judges it has become quite the rage to open up your court and welcome in – well, probably a few lonely souls and a couple of local journalists, limited to those cases where a parent has been sounding off on Facebook or trying to take a child from...
by Lucy R | Dec 8, 2014 | Transparency News
On 11th November the Family Justice Council held its annual debate, on the topic of transparency in family proceedings. It was a well attended and wide ranging debate, with speakers and attendees not just comprising judges and family lawyers but also journalists,...
by Sarah P | Dec 4, 2014 | Events, Project
[Update 15/5/15 : We’ve now put all the conference material together on our events page here and we’ve stopped updating this post. The most up to date programme is on our events page.] Policing Parents? Protecting Children? Promoting Adoption? Do we get...
by Julie Doughty | Dec 4, 2014 | Transparency News
I thought it might useful to extract a few relevant points from the readable but lengthy new report on research into the experiences and needs of litigants in person in private law family court cases. Litigants in person in private family law cases – Liz...
by Julie Doughty | Nov 12, 2014 | Transparency News
Two members of the Transparency Project, Lucy Reed and Julie Doughty, attended the Family Justice Council annual debate on ‘Transparency in family proceedings’ in London last night. The speakers ‘for’ openness were Sir Roderick Newton, the judge in the Pacchieri care...
by Lucy R | Nov 2, 2014 | Cases, Explanation, Notorious
Curious news reports regarding the cause of death of a baby girl in Cumbria, began circulating some weeks ago. The BBC reported that the coroner saying that “there had been a two-week Family Court hearing into the death, which found the cause of death could not...
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