by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2023 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
In August this year, a journalist attempted to observe the first day of a multi-day final hearing in a private children case. She was refused access by the judge, His Honour Judge Haigh. The following day, another journalist [Louise Tickle, who is a member of The...
by reporting watch team | Nov 19, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI
We wrote about the Cafcass in-house psychology service ‘that no one seemed to know about’ back in April and again in October. We received replies on 10 November from Cafcass Governance to our follow-up freedom of information questions. We weren’t...
by Lucy R | Nov 5, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
Some news. The Reporting Pilot now running in 3 courts will shortly be extended to Magistrates in those courts. The Reporting Pilot will be rolled out in a number of other courts from January 2024. As with the first 3 pilot courts the new courts will first bring...
by reporting watch team | Oct 4, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, FOI
UPDATE 25.11.23: We have now received replies to our follow-up questions and will publish these, and our views on them, next week. In April we wrote a blog post: The ‘Psychology Service’ for family court cases that nobody seems to know about: The ‘Psychology...
by Paul M | Oct 1, 2023 | Comment, Transparency News, Trends
In one of his last speeches before retiring as the head of the judiciary of England & Wales, Lord Burnett of Maldon congratulated the courts on the way technology had enhanced open justice through live streaming, media access to remote hearings, and the...
by reporting watch team | Sep 23, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
We’ve heard rumbles a couple of times in recent months, along the lines of ‘not enough legal blogging’ under the new reporting pilots in Cardiff, Carlisle and Leeds family court centres. They’ve got us thinking about how many legal blogging...
by reporting watch team | Sep 15, 2023 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
In May this year, the Ministry of Justice issued a call for evidence from all interested parties, including the judiciary, legal professionals, the media, businesses, academics, law and technology experts and court and tribunal users on how they think the government...
by reporting watch team | Sep 2, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
As the two year anniversary of the publication of the Transparency Review approaches, how does Sir Andrew McFarlane’s acknowledgment of the need for a major shift in culture and process to increase the transparency of the family justice system, and his promises of a...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 30, 2023 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
The President of the Family Division has issued guidance on when a care order is the right order for the court to make although the children are to live at home with their parents. In other words, there is no imminent plan to remove the children under a care...
by Julie Doughty | Aug 6, 2023 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
I recently attended a hearing at Cardiff Family Court as a legal blogger under the Reporting Pilot, in the hope of finding out more about QLRs (under the ‘qualified legal representative’ scheme), as we discussed in this post: What’s a QLR and what’s all the fuss...
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