by Julie Doughty | Feb 17, 2025 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week, we wrote on a family court judgment about children that had been published on TNA and BAILII naming an individual party, which we said almost never happened. That’s because of the strict privacy and anonymity rules intended to protect children who are...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 12, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
A family court judgment published on BAILII and TNA last month exposed prolonged harassment of the parents of a small child who had been conceived by sperm donation – by a man they’d met on social media who they thought had unselfishly offered to help them...
by reporting watch team | Jan 31, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Amidst all the concern about the anonymisation of the family court judges in the historical decisions made about placing Sara Sharif with her father, we should not lose sight of the fact that Mr Justice Williams allowed the media extensive access to documents that...
by Paul M | Jan 24, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The Court of Appeal has unanimously allowed an appeal by journalists Louise Tickle, Hannah Summers and several media organisations against an order made by Mr Justice Williams in December 2024 to keep the identities of Family Court judges anonymous. These judges had...
by reporting watch team | Dec 20, 2024 | Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
Santa has brought a whole sackful of transparency related goodies for us to report on. The stocking fillers are The Transparency and Open Justice Board’s call for views on its proposed Key Objectives (yes, this is the board announced some months ago, but...
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