by Julie Doughty | Feb 17, 2025 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week, we wrote on a family court judgment about children that had been published on TNA and BAILII naming an individual party, which we said almost never happened. That’s because of the strict privacy and anonymity rules intended to protect children who are...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 12, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
A family court judgment published on BAILII and TNA last month exposed prolonged harassment of the parents of a small child who had been conceived by sperm donation – by a man they’d met on social media who they thought had unselfishly offered to help them...
by reporting watch team | Feb 7, 2025 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on the previous month’s media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other recent transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW,...
by reporting watch team | Jan 31, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Amidst all the concern about the anonymisation of the family court judges in the historical decisions made about placing Sara Sharif with her father, we should not lose sight of the fact that Mr Justice Williams allowed the media extensive access to documents that...
by reporting watch team | Jan 30, 2025 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Resources, Transparency News
What was introduced as the Reporting ‘Pilot’ in 2023 is now a permanent change in family courts, to allow more reporting by journalists and legal bloggers. Within a few months, reporting will be easier in almost all family court cases. The changes are...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 29, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
This post follows on from the first part of my report on care proceedings in Cardiff Family Court published here. I was uncertain as to exactly what the judge would decide about who had caused Claire’s injuries. There were no Perry Mason moments of discovery and...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 29, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
One evening in autumn 2023, a young couple took their five month old baby to an emergency hospital where she was diagnosed with numerous physical injuries (some very serious) which the parents couldn’t explain. Local authority children’s services were called in and...
by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2025 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI
As you can read about here, we’ve been regularly sending Freedom of Information requests to the Ministry of Justice about the ‘urgent’ review they were undertaking on the presumption of parental involvement. The statutory presumption that it’s in a...
by Polly Morgan | Jan 28, 2025 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Here at The Transparency Project, we sometimes receive press releases from law firms. It’s common for barristers’ chambers and law firms to promote their involvement in different cases, and sometimes on the unpopular side of those cases. It’s absolutely crucial to the...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 27, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Resources
New practice guidance ‘The use of Intermediaries, Lay Advocates and Cognitive Assessments in the Family Court’, was issued by the President of the Family Division on 23 January. The guidance is quite brief and refers to three court judgments delivered over the...
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