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NB on Re NB
At the beginning of April 2019, a Press Association report of an interim hearing at the Court of Protection provoked a number of newspaper headlines and outraged reactions, because it quoted a High Court judge, Mr Justice Hayden, as having spoken of a “fundamental...
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Courts: fit for the future – but not for the present?
More than a year has passed since the Transparency Project submitted its response (among many others) to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on the future strategy of court and tribunal estate reform. Now at last the MOJ has issued its own response. You can read...
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The debate about Family Court features on PMQs and daytime telly
This week the debate about Family Courts, their secrecy, their failures (as many would see it) dealing appropriately with the tricky issue of domestic abuse has had significant public attention. The letter to the Justice Minister from 120 MPs calling for an inquiry...
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An Inquiry into the Secret Family Courts?
The launch of a campaign Today sees a coordinated media push in support of a public inquiry into the secret family courts and their handling of abuse. The campaign has been brewing for many months, if not years – but today brings the announcement that 120 MPs have...
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A Major Transparency Announcement from the Top Family Judge
Yesterday, the President of the Family Division published his anticipated guidance and consultation on transparency issues. The guidance had been promised by the President in the course of Transparency Project member Louise Tickle's successful appeal against a...
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Adele: Privacy, Litigation and Arbitration
This is a guest post by Alex Chandler. Alex is a barrister specialising in financial remedy claims on divorce. He practises at 1 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, and also sits as a part-time judge, arbitrator and private FDR judge. His reported cases include a recent...
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The Troubling case of Justyna
This is a guest post from Valerie Eliot Smith. Valerie is a non-practising barrister and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She has lived with the illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1981. When health...
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Family Court Reporting Watch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court casesExplaining or commenting on published judgments of family court casesHighlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES Local news Derbyshire Live and Nottinghamshire...
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Pause for thought
My name is Annie, and I'm one half of the Project Coordination team at The Transparency Project. Some of you may also know me as the founder of "Surviving Safeguarding; a parent's guide to the child protection process" as well as being the Parent and Relatives...
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Written evidence to Commons Justice Committee’s Court and Tribunal Reforms inquiry
In January 2019 the House of Commons Justice Select Committee launched an inquiry into the HMCTS Reform programme "to consider the progress made with the reforms so far and the implications of planned changes, particularly in relation to access to justice." As...
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