by Lucy R | Oct 17, 2014 | Project, Transparency News
We’ve produced a response to the President of the Family Division’s consultation about transparency. If you’d like to read it you can download it here. The consultation can be read here.
by Lucy R | Oct 12, 2014 | Transparency News
The Family Justice Council is holding its 8th Annual Debate and panel discussion at Central Hall, Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London SW1H 9NH between 5.30pm and 7.30pm on Tuesday 11th November 2014. The topic for this year’s debate is transparency. The motion for...
by Sarah P | Sep 30, 2014 | Comment
Locking the stable door after the horse has bolted There are many metaphors which are applicable in this situation. Cats that are out of bags, genies that are out of their bottles etc, etc. What the metaphors share is recognition of the futility of trying to act after...
by Lucy R | Sep 16, 2014 | Project
More family judgments than ever before are being made available to the public, primarily through BAILII. But sending a judgment to BAILLI doesn’t in itself mean that the public are better informed or that they are able to access the information held on that site...
by Julie Doughty | Sep 16, 2014 | Project
The short answer is ‘No’. Some years ago, I noticed that the consultation documents on access to family courts tended to use these two terms interchangeably and I wondered if transparency was just a fashionable word for openness. I looked into it and...
by Lucy R | Sep 12, 2014 | Resources
BAILII, the British and Irish Legal Information Agency, is a charity which makes judgments in family (and other) cases freely available for public use. Family Division (High Court) Judgments Family Court Judgments (High Court Judges) Family Court Judgments (Other...
by Sarah P | Sep 10, 2014 | Dictionary
Section 20 of the Children Act 1989 is about the local authority’s duty to provide accommodation for any child in need in their area who needs somewhere to live because there isn’t anyone who has parental responsibility for him or the person who has been caring...
by Andrew P | Aug 28, 2014 | Trends
I couldn’t really nail this in my “follow the money” pieces (part 2 here), but it is important. I was thinking that a starting point might be an FOI request to the Department for Education, and had in mind these questions 1. Has the UK...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 28, 2014 | Trends
The starting point for court proceedings is traditionally that they must all be open to the public because justice must be seen to be done. Exceptions were recognised in an early 20th century case as being, for example, where certain children and people with mental...
by Andrew P | Aug 28, 2014 | Comment
Follow the Money Part Two (please read Part One first, which sets out the context and purpose) Social workers The social worker is the person at the sharp end. On any individual case, they have to make the judgment call as to whether the situation can work at...
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