RC v FP [2025] EWFC 123
Mr Nicholas Allen KC sitting as deputy High Court judge. Judgment in private law children proceedings extending transparency order until child’s 18th birthday.
Transparency
Re-multiplied Propagation
In this article I shall refer to those financial remedy cases heard in private to which s 12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 does not apply as mainstream financial remedy cases. As is well-known, s 12 imposes an automatic restriction on publishing the details of any financial remedy case which
Tickle v The Father & Ors [2025] EWFC 160
Judgment date: 09 June 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/160
Henke J. Procedural judgment in children proceedings reaffirming legal protections for journalistic sources and highlighting the limits of transparency in the family courts.
Henke J delivered a discrete procedural judgment following a fact-finding hearing on 2 May
Let’s Be Clear: The Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings
One of the most important considerations for anyone with significant wealth, or who has a public profile and who is getting divorced, is the subject of confidentiality and privacy. It is often a key factor of any such client who is considering where and how to get divorced, and it
Absence of Authority?
In G v S (Family Law Act 1996: Publicity) [2024] EWFC 231 (B) (6 June 2024) HHJ Reardon asked:
‘What is the default position in terms of publication in a case where s 12 [of the Administration of Justice Act 1969] does not apply?’
And answered:
‘42. … I would suggest,
What’s the Point of a Judgment? Examples, Authorities and the Panopticon
Cast your mind back to the first time you sat in court and heard a judgment handed down, before you became familiar with its content, structure and duration.
I can recall sitting as a pupil in the back of an overheated district judge’s chambers in Kent. The final hearing
Multiplied Propagation
‘An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.’ (Mahatma Gandhi)
In the six months between 30 September 2023 and 1 April 2024, 24 financial remedy judgments which were not mainly about the maintenance of children (and