by Jack Harrison | Jan 21, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
At every level, judges of the family court have to resolve sometimes unimaginable situations – acts in the “never ending carnival of human misery.” The intensity of such cases is nearly always increased where the children involved are very unwell,...
by Guest Post | Jan 20, 2022 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends
Behind Closed Doors: Why we break up families – and how to mend them, is due for publication by Virago on February 3. Here the Author, Polly Curtis, answers our questions. What’s your book, Behind Closed Doors, about? It’s about how the decision is made to...
by Judith Townend | Jan 7, 2022 | Analysis, Explanation, Transparency News
What’s the collective noun for browser tabs? I ended my year with a lot – a flock? A bevy? – open, mainly relating to one of my main preoccupations, justice system data (i.e. information generated by the process of justice). I’m somewhat nervously returning to them...
by Paul M | Jan 4, 2022 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Last month HM Courts and Tribunals Service published their own research into user experiences of remote hearings: Evaluation of remote hearings during the COVID 19 pandemic. The report analyses responses to surveys conducted between May and October 2020 with public...
by Lucy R | Jan 2, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
We saw this headline in The Times just after Christmas. What on earth is it all about? We’ve read and re-read it and to be frank, we’re still not completely sure. The ‘oligarch divorce’ in question is that of Farkhad Akhmedov and his ex wife...
by reporting watch team | Dec 31, 2021 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Resources
UPDATE 25.03.24: We’ve now seen that there’s a revised 2023 version here. We’ve just noticed that a revised version of this lengthy document (566 pages!) has been issued online, so we looked for any references to transparency. What we found is brief...
by Julie Doughty | Dec 21, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
On 24 November, the BBC broadcast the story above. The Court of Protection (CoP) judgment, PH & Anor v Brighton And Hove City Council [2021] EWCOP 63, has now been published on BAILII. The full name of the case is: PH and RH v (1) Brighton and Hove City Council...
by Lucy R | Dec 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This post originally appeared on the author’s blog Pink Tape and is reposted here with permission (NB, disclosure : the author is the Chair of The Transparency Project). Most of the newspapers carried the story on Saturday: ‘Andrew Griffiths found to have...
by reporting watch team | Dec 6, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Today, the Ministry of Justice has announced the makeup of the TIG – the Transparency Implementation Group who will take forward the recommendations made in the President’s Review published at the end of October, that we wrote about here. The group is...
by Alice T | Dec 5, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Media stories this week of an adoption breakdown, from the perspective of an adoptive mother who felt she had no option but to ask for her older child (15) to return to care, have provoked lots of comment, some of it scathing. We’ve gathered the reports and broadcasts...
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