by reporting watch team | Jun 28, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The final report from the spotlight review of family courts’ handling of domestic abuse has finally been published : Assessing risk of harm to children and parents in private law children cases The report is long and detailed and has generated quite a lot of...
by Guest Post | Jun 28, 2020 | Court of Protection
This post was written by Alex Troup, barrister and mediator at St John’s Chambers, and was first published on the Court of Protection Handbook blog, and is reproduced with kind permission. [Even though COVID-19 may be making everyone rethink how conventional...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 26, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Lancashire County Council v M & Ors (COVID-19 Adjournment Application) [2020] EWFC 43 is another case (like Re C that we wrote on here) where an extraordinarily large number of professionals spent many hours working on a notion that was dismissed by the judge,...
by reporting watch team | Jun 24, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
News just in that the legal blogging pilot (PD36J) has been extended until the end of December. The pilot has been running since 2018 and allows legally qualified legal bloggers to attend private family hearings to aid transparency. Earlier this year the Family...
by Alice T | Jun 24, 2020 | Legal blogging
I’ve just had another go at testing open justice in the family court through legal blogging. The aim remains to identify and work through any barriers created by the move to remote working in response to Covid. The pilot rights and open justice Legal...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 21, 2020 | FCReportingWatch
Two documents about special guardianship were published in mid June: A Public Law Working Group/Family Justice Council report and a Nuffield Family Justice Observatory research briefing on special guardianship orders (SGOs). The President of the Family Division has...
by reporting watch team | Jun 18, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
296 days ago, on 27 August 2019, the Daily Express published an inaccurate article in the print edition of their paper. Today they have published a correction because the regulator IPSO required this. For those who are interested, we saved the original Express article...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 12, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This post is an update to the hearing I attended last week that I wrote about here . The Court of Appeal judgment has now been published on BAILII as Re C (Children: Covid-19: Representation) [2020] EWCA Civ 734 . The judgment is given by Lord Justice Peter Jackson....
by Guest Post | Jun 10, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation
This is a guest post from Katie Gollop. Katie is a barrister at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers specialising in healthcare related law. She’s also a Deputy High Court Judge allocated to the Family Division and Court of Protection. Cometh the hour, cometh a timely change in...
by Guest Post | Jun 7, 2020 | Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Celia Kitzinger, co-director of the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre and Honorary Professor, Cardiff University School of Law and Politics. She tweets as @KitzingerCelia and can be contacted at:...
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