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Are young people losing their freedom because of Deprivation of Liberty Orders?
This is a guest post by Victoria Butler Cole KC. Victoria is a barrister at 39 Essex and you can find her on Bluesky @torbc.bsky.social. The BBC recently published an article about the experiences of a young woman who had spent time in a range of placements including...
Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup: February-March 2025
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW, TRANSPARENCY etc The BBC reported on The...
Family Court Rule Committee proposes rule change on unregulated experts
Some news on the much awaited reforms relating to the instruction of unregulated experts in the Family Court: the Family Procedure Rule Committee has launched a consultation on proposed rule changes that are said to tighten the standards for the instruction of expert...
Access to Family Court documents under the open justice principle
UPDATE - 2nd July 2025 - see bottom of this post Journalists and legal bloggers (reporters) are normally allowed to see certain types of documents under the Reporting Provisions that came in this year, and earlier during the Reporting Pilot. Sometimes reporters ask to...
Court of Appeal to decide on ‘necessity’ for intermediaries
We wrote last year about a hearing I attended in Cardiff Family Court about the necessity for an intermediary to assist a father in a fact-finding hearing. We were therefore interested to see recently listed an appeal against a decision made by a judge in a different...
Does a reporter have to be in court to read confidential documents?
Dale Vince, described on Wikipedia as ‘a British Green energy industrialist, former New Age traveller’ attracts a good deal of publicity whether it’s his political donations, owning a ‘green’ football team, or taking libel actions against publishers who wrongly...
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