MAKING FAMILY JUSTICE CLEARER
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Re Z: A family court decision to share serious abuse findings with Social Work England (with guidance)
Last month, there was a fair bit of media interest around a High Court battle before Mrs Justice Knowles involving a senior social worker who had been found by the family court to have perpetrated domestic abuse towards his ex-partner. HHJ Ahmed, the judge...
‘Somewhere in the history of this case we have lost our humanity’
This is an update on a case I wrote about in September last year - 'Choosing the course which is less stressful to the child'. The hearing before Mrs Justive Lieven last summer concerned applications for care orders by Warwickshire County Council in respect of X and Z...
Deprivation of Liberty and the black mirror
Is removing a mobile phone and access to social media a deprivation of a child’s liberty, or just something that a parent should be entitled to do? Mr Justice Macdonald gives us his answer in Manchester City Council v. P (Refusal of restrictions on mobile phone)...
Transparency in the Family Courts and the Court of Protection: what are the differences?
With the recent launch of the Transparency Reporting Pilot in the family courts, there may be a risk of confusion over some of the terminology, such as “Transparency Orders”, already used in the Court of Protection, and misunderstanding over the role of “legal...
What’s the future for open justice and ‘justice system data’ policy?
“Our justice system is years behind other public services like health and education in collecting and using data to understand performance and impact” says Natalie Byrom, director of research at the Legal Education Foundation (TLEF). “We need a fundamental shift in...
Family Courts scrutinised by the press – but what do we think of the reporting so far?
Nobody who has ever read a newspaper or visited twitter would be expecting new media coverage of the family court, made possible by the ‘reporting pilot’, to be in glowing terms. However, the pilot isn’t a PR exercise, and for transparency to mean anything, we have to...
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