MAKING FAMILY JUSTICE CLEARER
LEGAL BLOGGING & OPEN REPORTING
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Thank you for your nominations – TP wins a thousand!
We are super pleased to be able to tell you that we have won a £1,000 Movement for Good award, thanks to nominations from you guys! If you will excuse the pun, this is grand news! The project is one of 500 winners in specialist insurer Ecclesiastical's Movement for...
Legal blogging a phone hearing: Not remotely difficult (so far)
Inspired by Celia Kitzinger's efforts in the Court of Protection and MacDonald J's lecture last week, I'm hoping to attend some remote family court hearings under the legal blogging pilot in coming weeks to test the practical reality behind the theoretical right for...
Open letter from NGOs and academics on open justice in the Covid-19 emergency
In recent weeks, the House of Commons select committee on justice has been assured by members of the government, judiciary and court service that open justice continues, despite changes to the nature of physical hearings, and increased use of technology for many types...
Illusory Open Justice: A Kafkan Attempt to Observe Magistrates Courts in the Time of COVID-19
This is a guest post by Tara Casey, a caseworker in the Women’s Justice Initiative of the charity law practice APPEAL, an organisation dedicated to correcting miscarriages of justice through strategic litigation and campaigning. COVID-19 has taken a hammer to the...
Nominate us! Quick Quick!
We know that everyone is a bit skint, or a bit worried about being skint right now. That is why we aren't going to be banging a drum for individual donations from you - we know everyone has other priorities. BUT, there is one way you can help us to raise a bit of cash...
Journalists persuade Judge to change his mind and name criticised local authority
We wrote about this case last week. We said 'watch this space' : http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/to-name-or-not-to-name-that-is-the-question/ Now, we bring you part two... The judge has changed his mind after the intervention of two journalists : our own Louise...
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