by Alice T | Jan 19, 2023 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Transparency News
The winds of change are perhaps already blowing, with at least one family court case already operating under the open justice pilot due to start from 30 January for most children cases in Leeds, Cardiff and Carlisle. What can be reported of this case, at this stage,...
by reporting watch team | Dec 2, 2022 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
From 30th January 2023, the current postion for the media or legal bloggers who attend family court hearings will change in three courts. Under a pilot scheme introduced by Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, it will no longer be necessary for a...
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 Doughty | 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...
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