by Paul M | May 19, 2020 | Consultations, Transparency News, Trends
Following the rapid consultation on the use of remote hearings in the family justice system, undertaken by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory at the request of the President of the Family Division, the Civil Justice Council have now embarked on a similar...
by Guest Post | May 19, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post by Delia Minoprio. Delia is a family law barrister at 1 Crown Office Row specialising in all aspects of children work. She tweets as @familylawdm The latest case on remote hearings in a care case comes from Mr Justice Williams,...
by Alice T | May 16, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Welcome to this month’s Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS The Times and the...
by Alice T | May 16, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a quick post to share some helpful updating information from the President. We think only those who responded to the Transparency Review call for evidence will have received this email update. So for those who don’t already know, the President has now...
by Lucy R | May 12, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We noticed two cases in which judgments were published yesterday, the very day that the President’s Transparency Review call for evidence closed – each deals with the question of whether a local authority who had brought care proceedings should be named, and...
by Lucy R | May 11, 2020 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
The President of the Family Division’s Transparency Review Panel put out a call for evidence in the early months of the year, before Covid-19 darkened our doors. Today the several-times-extended deadline for that call for evidence fell due. The Transparency...
by Paul M | May 11, 2020 | Comment, Transparency News, Trends
Justice suspended Nothing better represents our idea of justice being not only done but seen to be done than the spectacle of trial by jury in the Crown Court. The arrangement of the physical space of the courtroom, the royal coat of arms behind the raised bench...
by Emma Nottingham | May 10, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This case concerns an appeal by Alfred McConnell (previously anonymised as TT in the first instance decision). Mr McConnell was born female but around 10 years ago, at the age of 22, transitioned to become male, undergoing testosterone treatment and a double...
by Lucy R | May 7, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Following on from our Alphabet Soup post about Re A and Re B (and our earlier post about Re P), there are two new remote hearing related judgments out : A Local Authority v Mother & Ors [2020] EWHC 1086 (Fam) and Re Q [2020] EWHC 1109 (Fam). As with A and B,...
by Paul M | May 6, 2020 | Consultations, Trends
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee is currently holding an inquiry into the future of journalism. “This inquiry will investigate how digital technologies are changing the production and consumption of journalism, how journalists can be...
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