by reporting watch team | Feb 22, 2024 | Legal blogging, Resources, Transparency News
“The publication of this excellent book is extremely welcome,” said Sir Andrew McFarlane when Transparency in the Family Courts: Publicity and Privacy in Practice, written by three of our trustees, Julie Doughty, Lucy Reed KC and Paul Magrath, was first...
by reporting watch team | Feb 4, 2024 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot, Resources, Transparency News
On Monday 29 Jan the (children) Reporting Pilot expanded to a whole host of new courts across England and Wales, and a new Financial Remedy Reporting Pilot began. Overall this will vastly increase the potential for reporters to observe and write about the work of the...
by reporting watch team | Jan 25, 2024 | FCReportingWatch, Guidance Note, Legal blogging, Resources, Transparency News
This time last year we produced a guidance note for judges and lawyers to help them navigate the relatively unfamiliar scenario of a reporter rocking up at court. That guidance note was endorsed by the Financial Remedies Court subgroup of the Transparency...
by Julie D | Oct 26, 2022 | Events, Resources
‘A good law gone bad’ is how the Hague Convention on International Abduction was described in a session organised by the Filia Hague Mothers project at an international feminist conference held in Cardiff over the weekend. The Convention was drafted in...
by reporting watch team | Dec 31, 2021 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Resources
We’ve just noticed that a revised version of this lengthy document (566 pages!) has been issued online, so we looked for any references to transparency. What we found is brief and out of date. The preface by Lady Justice King explains that the book is a...
by Lucy R | Oct 25, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Resources
There has been a lot of discussion recently about experts in the family court, prompted partly as a result of the recent publication of a ‘memorandum’ on the topic by the President of the Family Division, and partly as a result of some recent press...
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