by Paul M | Sep 13, 2022 | Comment, Transparency News
We have been concerned for some time that the publication of judgments from the Family Court by non-High Court judges seems to have dried up. In fact they haven’t, not altogether at any rate; they’re just harder to find now. These judgments used to be kept in a...
by Guest Post | Aug 10, 2022 | Analysis, Court of Protection, Explanation
This is a guest post by Alex Ruck Keene, reposted with permission from the Mental Capacity Law and Policy blog. In Re EM [2022] EWCOP 31, Mostyn J expressed a number of concerns about the transparency order made in the case before him by Keehan J, in ‘broadly...
by Julie D | Aug 4, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
There’s been a lot in the media recently about individual people who are appointed in the family courts to give a professional opinion on relationships where there’s suspected alienation by mothers. This process happens by way of agreeing and commissioning...
by Julie D | Jun 22, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This is a post about a defamation trial where one party (the claimant – C) is claiming the other party (the defendant – D) has caused his reputation serious harm by making statements that allege domestic abuse by C against D. Far removed from the recent...
by Alice T | Apr 30, 2022 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
The minutes of the Family Justice Rules Committee (FJRC) meetings held on 7 February and 7 March 2022 are now transparently published. This is speedy compared to previously, and compared to the time it takes other hard-pressed family justice...
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