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Transparency Project: Family Court Reporting Watch – Weekly Round-Up No. 20
The purpose of this update is to correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, to explain and comment on published Judgments of family cases and to highlight other transparency...
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Transparency Project: Family Court Reporting Watch – Weekly Round-Up
The purpose of this update is to correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, to explain and comment on published Judgments of family cases and to highlight other transparency...
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Judge flags complaint on behalf of child against journalist who sneaked into...
The judgment by Mr Justice Hayden, in Westminster City Council v H ([2017] EWHC 1221 (Fam)) concerning the case of ‘H’, the 15 year old boy at the centre of the Telegraph story we reported on here, was...
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Where did all the privacy injunctions go? A response to the Queen’s Bench...
According to the latest official statistics on privacy injunctions in January to December 2016 there were just three proceedings where the High Court considered an application for a new interim privacy...
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Achievement unlocked: Our experience of the IPSO process – Transparency Project
The Independent Press Standards Organisation have recently published the “Resolution Statement” in respect of our complaint about an article by The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker regarding Court of...
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The most secretive court in all of Christendom – Transparency Project...
Recent coverage of the placement of a 5 year old Christian girl with a muslim foster family that spoke no English has generated much outrage and media attention this week. But as more information...
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Privacy and the Princess: Publication of Information about Settlement Offers...
Once upon a time, His Royal Highness Louis Xavier Marie Guillauime, Prince of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau and Prince of Bourbon-Parma married Tessy Antony, now Her Royal Highness Tessy Princess of...
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Journalism, Judges and Justice: a crisis in court reporting? – Paul Magrath
A report on Open Justice from the Chartered Institute of Journalists warns of “an unprecedented, and sustained, attack on the journalism profession, which has taken a toll on our ability to cover...
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IPSO upholds complaint against The Times in the Muslim Foster Carer Case –...
Last year The Times ran a number of leading articles criticising the arrangements for the care of a young girl placed in foster care by Tower Hamlets council, with a focus on the religious background...
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Andrew Norfolk of the Times, More bad journalism – Brian Cathcart
The chief investigative reporter of the Times newspaper, Andrew Norfolk, has published another article displaying his inability to adhere to basic journalistic standards. The headline was ‘Jailed...
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Interim privacy injunctions: a change in the rules to improve the recording...
In 2017 a new list was created in the Queen’s Bench Division, to be known as the Media and Communications List, and Mr Justice Warby, a media law specialist, was put in charge of it. The list was...
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IPSO: 296 days to correct a factual inaccuracy, effective press regulation? –...
296 days ago, on 27 August 2019, the Daily Express published an inaccurate article in the print edition of their paper. On 18 June 2020 they have published a correction because the regulator IPSO...
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Right of audience denied: McKenzie Friend not allowed to speak for litigant...
The recent case of Ameyaw v McGoldrick [2020] EWHC 1741 (QB) offers a cautionary tale about McKenzie Friends and what they can and can’t do for you in court. In this case the judge, Mrs Justice Steyn,...
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Legal Information: All about BAILII, Part One, What it is and where it came...
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute, better known to all who use it as BAILII. Although it is the UK’s most popular free legal website, according...
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Legal Information: All about BAILII, Part Two, How to use it – Paul Magrath
The main purpose of this post is to show how to find cases and other materials on the site of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute, better known as BAILII. There is a separate post...
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Family Proceedings, Financial Remedy Hearings: The Cost of Transparency –...
The case of Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30 has hit the headlines because of the eye watering legal costs, and the excoriating judicial criticism of the parties for running them up. But...
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Independent external review of IPSO – Paul Magrath
Winning public confidence in IPSO’s independence and effectiveness remains an uphill task, according to its latest external review. While the newspaper regulator is generally well managed, its...
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Contempt of court: yet more confusion and inconsistency over naming of guilty...
Yet again a judgment in a contempt of court case has revealed problems around transparency and open justice. The case is Esper v NHS North West London Integrated Care Board [2023] EWCOP 29; [2023]...
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