Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by Alice T | Sep 15, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal bloggers pilot, Transparency News

Welcome to this month’s Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS BBC Radio 4 PM and...

Has the revolution happened? Can we ever go back?

by Paul M | Aug 25, 2020 | Consultations, Transparency News, Trends

The Lord Chief Justice called it “the biggest pilot project that the justice system has ever seen” and said “there will be no going back to February 2020”. Remote court hearings would have come sooner or later, but thanks to Covid-19 they came at us fast, in March...

Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by Alice T | Jul 18, 2020 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

Welcome to this month’s Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS The Express...

Another view on the government ‘spotlight review’ report – on how the family courts treat domestic abuse

by Guest Post | Jul 8, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

This is a guest post by Ursula Rice. Ursula is a Solicitor-Advocate and Director at Family First Solicitors. She tweets as @tweetygraffity. We hope to publish more posts about this Review in the coming days. You can read previous posts here and here. On...

HMCTS response to letter on open justice in the COVID-19 emergency

by Judith Townend | Jul 1, 2020 | Comment, Legal bloggers pilot, Transparency News

The chief executive of HMCTS, Susan Acland-Hood, has responded to an open letter from NGOs and academics raising concerns about the provision of open justice measures during the COVID-19 emergency period. In summary, the response confirms: that for public hearings...

Spotlight domestic abuse review – big changes ahead for Family Court

by reporting watch team | Jun 28, 2020 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News

The final report from the spotlight review of family courts’ handling of domestic abuse has finally been published : Assessing risk of harm to children and parents in private law children cases The report is long and detailed and has generated quite a lot of...