by Alice T | Jun 14, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
At the latest Cafcass Open Board Meeting we asked about news that Cafcass are starting to trigger their prioritisation protocol and open allocation hubs for private law cases in some areas, and for an update on handling of domestic abuse cases. The Family Justice...
by reporting watch team | Jun 11, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
This blog post is about the case of Re A (Domestic Abuse: Incorrect Principles applied) [2021] EWFC B30. First, the context: June 2020: The Ministry of Justice published the ‘Harm Report’, a 200-page document detailing criticisms of the way family courts minimised...
by Lucy R | Jun 7, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends
Last month Dr Julia Brophy, Marisol Smith with Jagbir Jhutti-Johal published an evaluation of the implementation of the President of the Family Division’s 2018 guidance on anonymisation of judgments. That guidance was based upon earlier work by Dr Brophy which...
by Paul M | Jun 4, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
HM Courts and Tribunals Service have recently published statistics about the number of hearings conducted remotely, ie by audio, video or on paper, compared with physical in-person hearings, over the course of the coronavirus lockdown. The statistics cover civil and...
by Julie Doughty | May 26, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Three years ago, eyebrows were raised when Mr Justice Mostyn stated in the case of GM v Carmarthenshire County Council & Anor [2018] EWFC 36 that use of attachment theory by a social worker was not ‘expert’ evidence and that he didn’t need a social worker to...
by Julie Doughty | May 18, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This judgment, Cardiff City Council v A Mother & Ors [2021] EWFC 44, relates to the case that Emily Dugan wrote about in the Sunday Times and that we wrote about here. This judgment appears to be the only one given by HHJ Jonathan Furness that has ever been...
by reporting watch team | May 16, 2021 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is the REVISED text of a submission to the President of the Family Division’s Transparency Review made by Sir James Munby (former President of the Family Division), in advance of the oral evidence session scheduled for 17 May 2021. It is published here with kind...
by Julie Doughty | May 16, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
This is the view of the Sunday Times in its editorial today, ‘The Sunday Times view on public transparency: A secrecy fixation shrouds decisions that affect us all’, which features a report by Emily Dugan, ‘Our baby was taken from us for months...
by Julie Doughty | May 13, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE 17 JANUARY 2025: A new judgment on this issue has just been published by the Court of Appeal. This blog post will be updated shortly. The new case is Re X and Y [2025] EWCA Civ 2. It’s well known that adoption orders made in England and Wales cannot be...
by reporting watch team | May 13, 2021 | FCReportingWatch
More couples discuss what they would do if they won the lottery than how they would co-parent their children in the event of separation, says the Positive Parenting Alliance – a coalition of over 20 children’s mental health charities, separated parenting groups,...
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