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The Future of Legal Aid or the Future of Family Law?
This is a guest post by Dr Jess Mant, Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University School of Law and Politics. Jess has been researching the impact of LASPO on domestic abuse cases in family courts for the last ten years. Her evidence to this recent parliamentary inquiry can...
Family arbitration : It’s arbitration, but not as we know it.
This is a guest post from Rhys Taylor, The 36 Group. Barrister, Arbitrator, Mediator. Rhys tweets as @RhysTaylor32 and is co-editor of www.familyarbitrator.com. A plea to stay with me I will admit that if I were not a family lawyer, I probably would not be bothered...
Minister for Justice thanks The Transparency Project
Recently, we noticed there had been a Parliamentary Question about family courts on 7 June, from Robert Halfon MP, as follows: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve transparency in the Family Court process....
If you don’t like the rules, change ’em
In 2017 we asked the Family Procedure Rule Committee to consider temporarily amending the Family Procedure Rules by way of a temporary pilot scheme to test out allowing 'legal bloggers' into family court hearings, alongside journalists (they have been allowed to...
Dispatches – a round up
There is a lot of twitter comment about last week's Dispatches programme (for those who didn't catch the show it can be viewed here). We have published two posts from members of TP setting out their personal views (here and here), but we thought we'd try and gather up...
Dispatches – why all the commotion is a good thing
I am the chair of The Transparency Project. This post represents my personal view about the Dispatches programme. It is not offered as a view from The Transparency Project as an organisation. It is based on my experience over two decades as a barrister representing...
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