by reporting watch team | Jan 12, 2024 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
As anticipated, the Reporting Pilot is now being extended to more courts – another 16, as well as the existing pilot in Cardiff, Carlisle and Leeds. We have copied the Judiciary press release below. As more metropolitan courts are now included, we may well see a...
by reporting watch team | Jan 11, 2024 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
We’re posting a link to this new article by Sir James Munby, retired President of the Family Division, which has been published by the Financial Remedies Journal here – The Use and Misuse of the Rubric in the Family Courts The article isn’t just...
by reporting watch team | Nov 30, 2023 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
In August this year, a journalist attempted to observe the first day of a multi-day final hearing in a private children case. She was refused access by the judge, His Honour Judge Haigh. The following day, another journalist [Louise Tickle, who is a member of The...
by reporting watch team | Nov 19, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI
We wrote about the Cafcass in-house psychology service ‘that no one seemed to know about’ back in April and again in October. We received replies on 10 November from Cafcass Governance to our follow-up freedom of information questions. We weren’t...
by reporting watch team | Sep 15, 2023 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
In May this year, the Ministry of Justice issued a call for evidence from all interested parties, including the judiciary, legal professionals, the media, businesses, academics, law and technology experts and court and tribunal users on how they think the government...
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