by David Burrows | Jan 24, 2017 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch
On 21 January 2017 Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, published his 16th View from the President’s Chambers ‘Children and vulnerable witnesses – where are we?. This was accompanied by a report from Cobb J (dated 18 November 2016). This report includes...
by Lucy R | Jan 11, 2017 | Comment, Events
We have been in dialogue with Women’s Aid about assertions made by them that family courts frequently breach PD12J (practice direction in the Family Courts concerning domestic abuse) by allowing victims to be cross examined by their abusers. We wanted to...
by Lucy R | Nov 26, 2016 | Comment
When we received an emailed open letter from CAFCASS setting out their position in response to our recent blog post : What About Henry? An interesting discussion about how we deal with domestic abuse a number of us shared our immediate reactions to CAFCASS’...
by Lucy R | Nov 25, 2016 | Comment
The following letter from CAFCASS was received in response to our blog post blog following the Westminster event ‘What about Henry?’ : What About Henry? An interesting discussion about how we deal with domestic abuse in which we asked for clarification from...
by Lucy R | Nov 16, 2016 | Comment
This week The Transparency Project were invited to attend an event at Portcullis House hosted by Only Dads and Only Mums, with Jess Phillips MP. Our Lucy Reed went along… The format was a series of short panel presentations with brief points made after each...
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