Transparency

Re-multiplied Propagation

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

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?

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

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

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

Financial Remedy Proceedings Transparency Reporting Pilot: Launch date 29 January 2024

Financial Remedy Proceedings Transparency Reporting Pilot: Launch date 29 January 2024

Introduction Those of you who have appeared in Children Act cases in Leeds, Cardiff or Carlisle in the last 12 months will have encountered the transparency pilot scheme established in those courts in January 2023 and which will be expanded to more courts in January 2024. The essence of the