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Finding a journalist to attend your family court hearing – update

Finding a journalist to attend your family court hearing – update

by reporting watch team | Jul 24, 2026 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

The new scheme of matching requests for a reporter and journalists who are interested in family court reporting is now up and running – Courting Coverage with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. We wrote about this initiative earlier this month. If you have...
Finding a journalist to attend your family court hearing – update

Finding a journalist to attend your family court hearing

by reporting watch team | Jul 2, 2026 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Open Reporting, Transparency News

We get many requests to The Transparency Project for one of our legal bloggers to attend court hearings and/or to suggest a journalist who can attend and report. We at TP have limited capacity as we’re volunteers and, although we know a few excellent journalists...
Finding a journalist to attend your family court hearing – update

Consultation on allocation and gatekeeping in family courts

by reporting watch team | Oct 11, 2025 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Open Reporting

This topic was recently covered in a consultation issued by judges that updates guidance to courts on what level of judge or magistrate should sit on a case and generally how applications received will be efficiently administered. The guidance says that it applies to...

Accurate reporting of Family cases – A long road lies ahead

by Sarah P | Oct 21, 2015 | Comment

On October 21st 2015 The Times published an article by the journalist Mike Pattenden who quotes Jacque Courtnage and me – somewhat to my surprise. I had not realised that our conversation was in fact an interview.  Of course, this was very naive of me and I will...

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