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Bob the builder – Mail : No we won’t!
We wrote recently about an article and headline in The Daily Mail that we thought was misleading. The article headlined a social worker's criticism of a mother for leaving her child on a Bob The Builder toy car when he was too little for it - and overall the article...
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Could you support The Transparency Project?
The Transparency Project has been running since 2014. We think we've done some pretty good work since we first launched, and we've been greatly assisted in that by grant funding from the Legal Education Foundation. Although we run primarily as a volunteer organisation...
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Family Court Reporting Watch
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 Mirror - Reported with Boy, 8, taken off...
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Court Reform and Open Justice: responses to the Public Accounts Committee’s Transforming Courts and Tribunals inquiry
The courts of England and Wales are currently undergoing a massive process of modernisation and reorganisation. The project known as HMCTS Reform involves closing older local courts and grouping courts into larger court centres in big towns, digitising all paper...
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Name-calling of judges
Image of Eleanor Rathbone MP., who the President describes as holding an honoured place amongst the family law reformers of the middle 20th century. Younger readers may not be aware that the Sunday Times was once a serious newspaper. Yesterday’s edition featured the...
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Bob the Builder – Mail, please fix it!
The Daily Mail reported yesterday that a 'Nurse's one-year-old son is taken from her care after she let him sit in a Bob The Builder toy car that was 'inappropriate' for his age'. There are 1,200 comments on the article. What the heck? Do the family courts really take...
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Family Court Reporting Watch
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 Spectator, The Times, The Guardian, The...
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Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and R (A Child): Why A Medical Treatment Significant Harm Test Would Hinder Not Help
This is a guest post by Katie Gollop QC and Sarah Pope. Katie represented Great Ormond Street hospital in the Charlie Gard case, and tweets as @katiegollop Sarah and Katie appeared in the recent case of Re R (A Child) [2018] EWFC 28. Sarah tweets as @sbvpope. Shortly...
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Talking about social work
We recently wrote about an article by Louise Tickle in the Guardian which had caused a certain amount of controversy, in particular arising from her use of the term 'kidnap' to describe failures of local authorities to act appropriately when accommodating children...
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Transparency – why it matters, what it means
This is the text of a speech delivered by Chair of The Transparency Project, Lucy Reed at the Bloomsbury Family Law Conference on 16 May 2018, at Gray’s Inn. Transparency - why it matters, what it means What IS transparency and why does it matter? Implications for...
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