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Court hearing lists and open justice
A cheery post on the HM Courts and Tribunals Service blog recently announced that developers were now working on on Making hearing lists more accessible to court and tribunal users This is long overdue. HMCTS has had court listings on its list, as it were, ever since...
The anonymisation wars – who is right about privacy in financial remedy cases?
This post isn't going to try and answer the question we've posed in the title (sorry) - but it is intended to try and briefly summarise some of what has been happening lately around the topic of family court transparency in financial remedies cases, and it accompanies...
Some Sunlight Seeps in
This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, former President of the Family Division[1]. In relation to transparency in the Financial Remedies Court there are further signs that the tectonic plates are shifting. BT v CU In November 2021 Mostyn J set the cat among the...
Highlights from the latest Rules Committee minutes
The minutes of the Family Justice Rules Committee (FJRC) meetings held on 7 February and 7 March 2022 are now transparently published. This is speedy compared to previously, and compared to the time it takes other hard-pressed family justice...
Something is going on with experts
This article was originally published in Family Law ([2022] Fam Law 422) in April 2022, and is reproduced here with kind permission. In October 2021 the President published a memorandum about experts. In it, Sir Andrew reminded us of four key questions to be asked in...
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Re H [2022]EWFC 10: Guidance in Learning Disability Cases
This is a post by regular contributor, Abigail Bond. Abigail is a barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol who specialises in Children Law (mainly care proceedings), and Court of Protection health and welfare matters. She tweets as @AbigailBond1. The Good...
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