by Alice T | Nov 18, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Some have wondered how the working group charged with reform proposals for private law family cases will integrate learning from the Harm Report (on better protecting victims of domestic abuse and their children) within the emerging direction of travel for private law...
by Lucy R | Aug 19, 2020 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Trends
As the summer has worn on, clouds have been gathering. In exchanges with other Transparency Project team members, I’ve been threatening to write a rather sullen blog post about transparency for a few weeks, and have finally been gathering my thoughts on the bow of our...
by Alice T | Jun 1, 2020 | Legal blogging
Inspired by Celia Kitzinger’s efforts in the Court of Protection and MacDonald J’s lecture last week, I’m hoping to attend some remote family court hearings under the legal blogging pilot in coming weeks to test the practical reality behind the...
by Lucy R | Feb 20, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
I made an impromptu visit to the family court in Oxford last week, and was able to sit in on most of the hearings in a District Judge’s list. I was permitted to report the details of each of the hearings I attended, subject to preserving the anonymity of the...
by Lucy R | Nov 23, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This week has seen reports in the legal press of a speech in which the President of the Family Division set out an idea for a research project about news reports containing accounts of how family courts have handled domestic abuse claims. See for example : Press...
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