by Lucy R | May 15, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
The launch of a campaign Today sees a coordinated media push in support of a public inquiry into the secret family courts and their handling of abuse. The campaign has been brewing for many months, if not years – but today brings the announcement that 120 MPs have...
by Lucy R | May 9, 2019 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
Yesterday, the President of the Family Division published his anticipated guidance and consultation on transparency issues. The guidance had been promised by the President in the course of Transparency Project member Louise Tickle’s successful appeal against a...
by Guest Post | May 9, 2019 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Alex Chandler. Alex is a barrister specialising in financial remedy claims on divorce. He practises at 1 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, and also sits as a part-time judge, arbitrator and private FDR judge. His reported cases include a recent...
by reporting watch team | May 7, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from Valerie Eliot Smith. Valerie is a non-practising barrister and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She has lived with the illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1981. When health...
by reporting watch team | May 5, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
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 Local news Derbyshire Live and Nottinghamshire...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | May 3, 2019 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
My name is Annie, and I’m one half of the Project Coordination team at The Transparency Project. Some of you may also know me as the founder of “Surviving Safeguarding; a parent’s guide to the child protection process” as well as being the...
by Paul M | May 2, 2019 | Consultations, Transparency News
In January 2019 the House of Commons Justice Select Committee launched an inquiry into the HMCTS Reform programme “to consider the progress made with the reforms so far and the implications of planned changes, particularly in relation to access to...
by reporting watch team | Apr 30, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This post is about a High Court case called Re MFS (Appeal: Transfer of Primary Care) [2019] EWHC 768 (Fam), a judgment delivered in March by Mr Justice Williams. We wrote this post some weeks ago, but the judgment was removed from BAILII before we published, so we...
by Paul M | Apr 30, 2019 | Comment, Transparency News
Following an earlier consultation, Part 39 of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) (relating to hearings in civil courts*) has been amended in some significant ways. First, to bolster the open justice principle, it has tightened up the rules relating to when a hearing may...
by reporting watch team | Apr 28, 2019 | FCReportingWatch
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 Linkless The Mirror, Guardian, Mail etc...
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