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the transcript of Mr Justice Nicklin's lecture on the progress of his Open Justice Board will be publicly available. Some excellent questions from the audience. Sounds like an inspiring day

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we have added a link to @jonbainesdata.bsky.social very helpful analysis of the gaps on data protection law in this guidance transparencyproject.org.uk/can-secret-r...

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For some reason @familoo.pinktape.co.uk @juliedoughty.bsky.social I can’t reply to this post, so having to repost it: these are my initial thoughts on the data protection aspects of the guidance informationrightsandwrongs.com/2025/06/04/c...

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... on the front page of BBC News today- our documentary- so sharing once more

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Post now updated in light of published judgment - Cross Examination of medical experts - exceptional or exceptionally important? transparencyproject.org.uk/cross-examin...

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Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW, TRANSPARENCY etc The... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29643

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HMCTS Reform – is that it? The HMCTS Reform programme for modernisation of the courts and tribunals has officially concluded. But, as I say on my latest post for @iclr.bsky.social, the process of reform continues. www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...

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The circumstances in this case may sound all too familiar to some readers. A child aged ten was terrified of his mother’s violent male partner and is now living with his grandparents. The local authority (LA) had applied for an interim care order... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29635

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includes interviews with the women who found baby Roman six yrs ago & the effect on them; also an interview with HHJ Reardon about the role of the family court in protecting these children. Police sound v concerned about the mother's situation

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new on the blog - the Family Justice Council has published guidance on whether covert (secretly made) recordings can be relied on as evidence in family courts. We explain - transparencyproject.org.uk/can-secret-r...

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If you record a meeting or conversation about your children, without people being aware you’re recording them, can you then produce and rely on that recording as part of your evidence to a family court? This is a question that has been hanging... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29626

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Another post on witness statements which "lack credibility" (this may well not be the last ...) www.civillitigationbrief.com/2025/05/22/t...

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A teacher physically assaulted and racially abused their adopted children while their partner - a barrister and family court judge - failed to protect them. Read @tbij.bsky.social ’s piece here and the FIVE related judgments in the next link www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

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What this post is about When medical expert witnesses are instructed in family cases, usually to help work out how an injury to a child was caused, their evidence can sometimes be accepted by all the parties, in which case the expert doesn’t need to... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29620

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more on Mr Albon www.theguardian.com/science/2025... who we wrote about in February transparencyproject.org.uk/judgment-pub...

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a reminder of the Family Procedure Rule Committee consultation on changing the rules on the use of unregulated experts in family court - deadline for responses is 6 June - www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Court of Appeal confirms that one can be found intentionally homeless for not staying in a hotel room provided as temporary accommodation for a homeless applicant in priority need (& a Family Court order on residence of children does not trump actual facts). nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/05/hote...

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www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/efficie... MPs to enquire on family court delays. Deadline for written evidence - 9 June

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interesting new judgment where famous mother, deceived by child's father, agreed with media application to disapply s 12 & identify parties, report on all docs etc. Argues public interest as a 'survivor of reproductive domestic abuse'. However judge prioritises child's privacy

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A response to this post has been published by former High Court judge, Sir Nicholas Mostyn here - lawdisorder.substack.com/p/a-response...

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Link to @louisetickle.bsky.social’s Observer podcast about Sara Sharif and the family court with some legal explanation from our chair @familoo.pinktape.co.uk

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Sara Sharif - podcast: observer.co.uk/listen/the-s...

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Brief postscript added by Sir James Munby in response to gov impact assessment published on Friday - envisaged length of panel hearings

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Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW, TRANSPARENCY etc The BBC... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29591

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Sir James Munby : Thoughts on the latest (amended) proposals for judicial involvement in assisted dying procedures transparencyproject.org.uk/assisted-dyi...

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This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, and it follows on from earlier posts (listed in the introduction) about the proposed Assisted Dying legislation currently being considered by Parliament. A postcript has been added commenting on the... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29569

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observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Please share! Public lecture - Mr Justice Nicklin - Open Justice: Fit for Purpose - Wednesday 4 June 2025 17:00 to 19:00 Location: Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Speaker: The Honourable Mr Justice Nicklin Register here: www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Exorbitant court transcripts are ‘a travesty of justice’: @DavidDavisMP. Tory MP quoted £100,000 for Letby transcripts 'when I pressed them it went down to £9K, way beyond the reach of most’. Justice minister Shabana Mahmood looking at an AI solution thejusticegap.com/open-justice...

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It's our tenth birtbday! What has changed and what hasn't in family courts since we set up?

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In fact, like the Queen, The Transparency Project has two birthdays. One in early 2014, when we emerged from the primordial online soup into a loose multi-cellular organism, and one when we were officially formed as a charity on 29 April 2015, with... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29554

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www.gov.uk/government/n... extension of Domestic Abuse Protection Orders to north Wales. Slow roll-out

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new post up on hearings in care proceedings transparencyproject.org.uk/completing-c...

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I went to Cardiff Family Court as a legal blogger in two care cases this week. Reporting on them might give an inkling into how the most recent ‘refocus’ on the Public Law Outline (PLO) 26 weeks time limit is working out in the real world. We... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29545

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we went legal blogging at Cardiff Family Court today. They are super efficient with Transparency Orders there!

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A significant judgment about transparency was handed down by the Supreme Court this week - Abbasi and another v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2025] UKSC 15. The case of Abbasi has been very long running, as has the case of... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29527

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an important judgment on transparency - we'll be writing on the wider implications shortly

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BBC summary of the Abbasi / Haastrup decision www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Judgment in Abbasi / Haastruup to be handed down by the Supreme Court this morning. Link: www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

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As this post explains, separate judgment in Abbasi also being handed down this morning. Anonymity of clinical practitioners in court proceedings.

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coercive control by the father of a child who died, and decisions about her burial place

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This is a guest post by Frank Cranmer, reposted from the Law & Religion UK blog, about a matter of ecclesiastical law which overlaps with family law. It concerns the grant of a faculty, which is an order granted by the Consistory Court for a... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29506

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are victims' experiences of family courts better under the Pathfinder Pilot? transparencyproject.org.uk/evaluation-o...

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An appeal judgment has just landed in our inboxes on the correct approach to the use of intermediaries in care proceedings: Re M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440. We wrote a post a couple of weeks ago when we became aware that this appeal... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=29504

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A trio of posts up just now about F v M - where a mother was permitted to tell her story under a pseudonym. One a basic explanation, and two slightly more wordy posts from our Chair @familoo and former President Fam Div Sir James Munby. (links to the latter two in the main post)

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