by Lucy R | Mar 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
It has been a long time since the President of the Family Division first published his “Next Steps” Transparency Consultation (August 2014) and an even longer time since he took his first steps in that direction, with the publication at the outset of 2014...
by Julie D | Dec 4, 2014 | Transparency News
I thought it might useful to extract a few relevant points from the readable but lengthy new report on research into the experiences and needs of litigants in person in private law family court cases. Litigants in person in private family law cases – Liz...
by Lucy R | Sep 16, 2014 | Project
More family judgments than ever before are being made available to the public, primarily through BAILII. But sending a judgment to BAILLI doesn’t in itself mean that the public are better informed or that they are able to access the information held on that site...
by Paul M | Sep 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
In a recent speech, Lord Neuberger, the President of the Supreme Court, spoke of the importance of open justice. “In its most basic form,” he said, “it means that court hearings take place in public and judges’ decisions are available to the public.” As Julie D has...
by Sarah P | Aug 25, 2014 | Dictionary
‘Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service’ gives us the acronym ‘Cafcass’. The function of Cafcass is to advise the court about what is in the best interests of the child whom it represents in family proceedings. The principal functions of...
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