Transparency

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

Groundhog Day Again: A Response to The Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings

Groundhog Day Again: A Response to The Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings

The Financial Remedies Sub-Group of The Transparency Implementation Group, chaired by HHJ Farquhar, produced its long-awaited Final Report, dated April 2023 but published in May 2023, Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court. On 6 July 2023 I published Groundhog Day: A Response to the Report of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group

Maintenance for a Disabled Adult Child: A Case of Legal Blogging

Maintenance for a Disabled Adult Child: A Case of Legal Blogging

Between August 2022 and June 2023 I observed, via Teams, a number of hearings in a single case heard by HHJ Shelton in Leeds and now reported as AB v CD [2022] EWFC 197 and 198; and [2023] EWFC 103. The case concerned cross-applications for variation of a 2012 maintenance

Are We Clear? Transparency and the TIG Financial Remedies Sub-Group Report

Are We Clear? Transparency and the TIG Financial Remedies Sub-Group Report

Many meetings, much discussion and a fish ’n’ chips (working) lunch later, the conclusions of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group (the Sub-Group) of the Transparency Implementation Group (TIG) were published in April 2023. Established by the President of Family Division and led by HHJ Stuart Farquhar, a group of 13 – judges,

Groundhog Day: a Response to the Report of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group of the Transparency Implementation Group

Groundhog Day: a Response to the Report of the Financial Remedies Sub-Group of the Transparency Implementation Group

The Financial Remedies Sub-Group of The Transparency Implementation Group, chaired by HHJ Farquhar, has produced its long-awaited Final Report, dated April 2023 but published in May 2023, Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court. It is a long, detailed and in many ways impressive report though unhappily, as we shall see,

Final Report of Financial Remedies subgroup of TIG

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Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis? Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy? A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed

Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis? Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy? A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed

Family Justice: Ostiis Apertis?[[1]] Or a mantle of inviolable secrecy?[[2]] A challenge to those who would keep the doors closed Sir James Munby 12 January 2023 On 28 October 2021 the President published the outcome of his Transparency Review: Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts. What