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Membership of the Transparency Implementation Group announced
Today, the Ministry of Justice has announced the makeup of the TIG - the Transparency Implementation Group who will take forward the recommendations made in the President’s Review published at the end of October, that we wrote about here. The group is appropriately...
Speaking out in the public interest and children’s privacy rights? The Eleanor Bradford adoption breakdown saga
Media stories this week of an adoption breakdown, from the perspective of an adoptive mother who felt she had no option but to ask for her older child (15) to return to care, have provoked lots of comment, some of it scathing. We’ve gathered the reports and broadcasts...
‘Far too often survivors and their children have been let down and retraumatised through the process and it is one of my utmost priorities to change this’
This is a quote from the website of the UK Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs, on the release of ‘Improving the family court response to domestic abuse’, a 29-page report on her work to date on establishing a mechanism to monitor the way allegations of...
Open Justice Inquiry – Read the written evidence
The Justice Committee is currently conducting an inquiry : Open justice: court reporting in the digital age The inquiry is not specific to family justice but it does encompass issues of relevance to the Family Court - so we made written submissions. One of our core...
Financial Remedies Transparency Proposals – Our Response
Alongside the main Transparency Review report, the lead judges of the Financial Remedies Court also published a consultation last month seeking views on a proposed 'reporting permission order' that is envisaged for regulating access to and use of documents by...
Judges publishing porn
'What?' I hear you ask, your face crunched up as you read the title of this post. Yes, you read it correctly. On 24 November 2021, approximately 3 years after the publication of detailed anonymisation guidance warning against the publication of overly graphic sexual...
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