The President’s guidance on anonymisation in published judgments
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the February 2019 issue, [2019] Fam Law 203. On 7 December 2018, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the President of the Family Division, issued some...
Capacity to use the internet
This is a guest post from Keri Tayler. Keri is a barrister specialising in Court of Protection work. She tweets as @keri_tayler. Two recent judgments in the Court of Protection sparked the usual inaccurate headlines suggesting that the court had ridden roughshod over...
Court of Appeal decision about orders for post-adoption contact
Re B (A Child) (Post-adoption contact) [2019] EWCA Civ 29 is the first time (since a change in the law in 2014) that the Court of Appeal has considered when an order should be made that an adopted child will have continuing contact with their birth family after he or...
Journalists and legal bloggers attending family courts – we’re re-running our workshop for lawyers
In light of the Legal Blogging Pilot implemented through PD36J, The Transparency Project has developed a CPD workshop for lawyers interested in brushing up their ‘transparency’ knowledge – whether with a view to taking part in the scheme themselves, or...
Family Court Reporting Watch Round Up
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court casesExplaining or commenting on published judgments of family court casesHighlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Express and Mirror – We explained...Clifford Bellamy takes up role as patron of The Transparency Project
We are very pleased to announce that Clifford Bellamy, who retired as the Designated Family Judge for Derby last month, has agreed to act as a patron of The Transparency Project*. We were sorry when we learned of Judge Bellamy’s imminent retirement, as he has been an...
NOT reforming the courts’ approach to McKenzie Friends: a judicial abdication of responsibility
In February 2016, the Lord Chief Justice and the Judicial Executive Board issued a consultation entitled “Reforming the courts’ approach to McKenzie Friends”. Three years later, they have finally produced a response which, disappointingly, just passes the buck to the government.
Shamima’s baby – the family law aspect
We’ve started trying to write something about Shamima Begum and her baby several times this week, but every time we agree what we are going to write, something changes. It feels a bit like shifting sands, and the facts are very unclear. So we aren’t going...
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