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To name or not to name – that is the question
We noticed two cases in which judgments were published yesterday, the very day that the President’s Transparency Review call for evidence closed - each deals with the question of whether a local authority who had brought care proceedings should be named, and each...
Transparency Review Call For Evidence Closes – Our Response
The President of the Family Division's Transparency Review Panel put out a call for evidence in the early months of the year, before Covid-19 darkened our doors. Today the several-times-extended deadline for that call for evidence fell due. The Transparency Project...
Is Criminal Justice Under Lockdown Remotely Possible?
Justice suspended Nothing better represents our idea of justice being not only done but seen to be done than the spectacle of trial by jury in the Crown Court. The arrangement of the physical space of the courtroom, the royal coat of arms behind the raised bench...
Transgender man loses appeal and remains recognised as ‘mother’ on child’s birth certificate
This case concerns an appeal by Alfred McConnell (previously anonymised as TT in the first instance decision). Mr McConnell was born female but around 10 years ago, at the age of 22, transitioned to become male, undergoing testosterone treatment and a double...
The magic soup stone strikes again (more new authorities about remote hearings)
Following on from our Alphabet Soup post about Re A and Re B (and our earlier post about Re P), there are two new remote hearing related judgments out : A Local Authority v Mother & Ors [2020] EWHC 1086 (Fam) and Re Q [2020] EWHC 1109 (Fam). As with A and B,...
The future of journalism: our response to the inquiry
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee is currently holding an inquiry into the future of journalism. "This inquiry will investigate how digital technologies are changing the production and consumption of journalism, how journalists can be supported...
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