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Pension mention: Ensuring you know about pensions when you get divorced
When TP’s chair Lucy Reed forwarded me this article from the Telegraph (‘Divorcing women should be shown value of their husband's pension, Age UK says’ - sorry paywall) my first response was AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH, which is the sound of a legal academic in...
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Reporting restrictions on Bethany’s dad – children’s rights or concealing system failure?
On Saturday, the Times reported: ‘Father beats legal bid to silence him over autistic girl in hospital “cell” ' [paywall]. Social affairs editor, Greg Hirst, reported that Jeremy (who is not using his surname publicly) succeeded in contesting an application by Walsall...
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Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Guardian - We explained the existing law...
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What is the legal test for taking a baby away before a final care order is made?
And does anyone really understand it? On 9th October 2018 the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory published a summary of its report 'Born into Care: Newborns in Care Proceedings in England'. The full report is now available on the Family Justice Observatory (FJO)...
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A Big Step For The Transparency Project
In August we advertised for applications to fill the role of Project Coordinator at The Transparency Project - the person appointed would be the first employee in the project's history, so this represents something of a step forwards for us. We received over 70...
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A gasp factor and a gulp factor: bad conduct and the family assets
Today’s Guardian has an article entitled : ‘MP to call for ban on attempted murderers recovering joint assets’. The article refers to a case raised by Gloria de Piero MP in which a man who was convicted of the attempted murder of his wife is seeking £60,000 of their...
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Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES We've not seen anything to comment on over...
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Can I object to a legal blogger (or journalist) coming into my hearing?
Yes. But just because you object doesn't necessarily mean no journalist or blogger will be allowed in. This post explains what the court rules and other law say about when journalists (or bloggers) may be excluded. If you know wish to object to the attendance of a...
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Day 2 of the legal blogging pilot – Attending as a non-practising solicitor, under the umbrella of the Transparency Project
On day two of the new legal blogging pilot I headed to the East London Family Court to check out how easy it would be to take up the new right to (normally) attend (most) family court hearings (just as an accredited journalist can). And to see what challenges it might...
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Inaugural Legal Blogging Day
Yesterday, 1 October, was the first day of the new legal bloggers pilot. Having spent many hours persuading the powers that be that this was a good idea to try out, it seemed like the done thing to be there on Day One. So, shortly before 10am I trotted from Chambers...
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