Understanding Transparency Orders: A Comprehensive Guide

A Guide to Transparency Orders The Transparency Pilot started in January 2023 in Leeds, Cardiff and Carlisle. The pilot permitted ‘accredited journalists and legal bloggers to report on what they see and hear in children cases in the family courts’.  Across the last 2 years the pilot has been extended. In January 2024, the pilot […]

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Adoption Report from The President’s Public Law Working Group 

In recent days, The President’s Public Law Working Group has today published its much-anticipated report, ‘Recommendations for Best Practice in Respect of Adoption’. This report is a critical read for all family law practitioners, particularly those involved in adoption cases.  The report outlines several key recommendations aimed at improving practices and policies surrounding adoption in […]

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