MAKING FAMILY JUSTICE CLEARER
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Has the revolution happened? Can we ever go back?
The Lord Chief Justice called it “the biggest pilot project that the justice system has ever seen” and said “there will be no going back to February 2020”. Remote court hearings would have come sooner or later, but thanks to Covid-19 they came at us fast, in March...
Messing about on the river (or CoP-Celia, you’re breaking my heart…)
As the summer has worn on, clouds have been gathering. In exchanges with other Transparency Project team members, I’ve been threatening to write a rather sullen blog post about transparency for a few weeks, and have finally been gathering my thoughts on the bow of our...
THE FAMILY COURTS MUST SHOW THEIR WORKINGS
Melanie Newman is a freelance journalist. Previously a reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, she has also worked for BBC Newsnight and the Victoria Derbyshire Programme. She writes for the British Medical Journal and is a regular contributor to the Law...
Gibbs (Rev 1: Mrs 0)
Gibbs v Gibbs (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 2134 is a rather extraordinary judgment. You’ll notice the names are incorporated in the description of the case - that is for two reasons. Firstly, the judgment relates to a committal hearing, which are always held in public with the...
Corona contact and children in care – Re D-S in the Court of Appeal
Three children had been living with their grandmother under interim care orders since September 2019, pending a fact-finding hearing listed for November 2020. The reason for the care orders was that one of the children had suffered a fracture, and their mother was one...
Another recusal refusal – but this time the Court of Appeal steps in
In the second such case in a month, a judge has refused to recuse herself at the request of a litigant, but on this occasion the Court of Appeal has reversed that decision and ordered that she step down from the case and let another judge take over. In the...
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