The Family Court Transparency Implementation Group (TIG) has recommended the creation of an “Anonymisation Unit” which will support family court judges needing to anonymise judgments for publication, in its first progress report.
The initiative follows a disastrous string of errors by Family Court President Andrew McFarlane, leading on one occasion to the unintended publication of graphic material shared in a child protection hearing.
Following Researching Reform’s inquiry to the President’s office about the error, it became clear that McFarlane had not put the document through an appropriate review process or confirmed the publication with any of the parties, lawyers assisting the parties or the judge who had submitted the file for publication.
On a separate occasion, which has not been disclosed until now, Researching Reform had to contact the President’s Office after finding the name of a child in a judgment which had not been properly redacted. The office pulled the judgment from every website which had uploaded it, and amended the document. We then asked the office if they could send out a second email alerting subscribers to the document’s publication once it had been edited and re-uploaded. A notification was never issued.
The publication of the graphic transcript occurred less than one month after McFarlane said journalists and bloggers should have greater access to family court hearings and court documents in a report on transparency in family proceedings published on 29th October, 2021. In a statement on the judiciary’s website, he said there needed to be “a major shift in culture and process to increase the transparency”. He added that the report’s aim was to balance two issues: developing public confidence in the Family Justice system while maintaining the anonymity of families and children inside the system.
The Family Court Transparency Implementation Group’s first report offers several more recommendations and updates.
The group confirmed that it would be piloting a new reporting scheme in three courts — due to be named in October — which will enable reporters and legal bloggers to attend and report on proceedings normally conducted in private in the family courts, while also ensuring the confidentiality of the children and parties involved.
The group set out its data collection strategy to gain insights into families attending the courts, which included six questions to guide the exercise:
- What happens to a family before they come to court?
- Who comes to court?
- What are their experiences of court?
- How is the family court operating?
- What decisions are being made about children and families?
- What are the immediate and ultimate outcomes of these decisions?
The group looked at how to manage the press during its meeting, going so far as to suggest that the Family Court could and should “ensure that any reporting of Family Court proceedings is reliable and well informed.” Journalists have their own set of ethical and legal guidance they must follow, and are unlikely to pay much, if any, attention to the President trying to influence reporting in the family courts.
The team are aiming to write up the research and proposals connected to the report’s actions in November.
The full report can be accessed here.
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After 12 years of corruption by family court, magistrates courts, Crown Courts I have a huge amount of evidence. The repeated ongoing response by police, CPS, SS and judges is a vicious abuse of process – all evidenced …
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It doesnt matter where you complain to, they dont want to know. but they will mess you about for weeks or even months before you get a final decision. We have heard many times over the years that the SS and family court system is rigged against parents and i believe it 100%.
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Who are the worst culprits? Social workers who openly admit that they want to take your child from you? No ,worse still are most of the family court solicitors and barristers who PRETEND to help parents but who in fact say “no need for you to testify as we will speak for you” thus effectively gagging the parents so that they can only watch helplessly as their lawyers agree to the care orders and adoption placements “in the best intersts of the children ” ;The judge in turn agrees with these “learned friends” and the children are whisked away to State Care or adoption and very possible sexual and/or physical abuse !
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We must be analytical and precise. The nett outcome from ALL of the children who have gone through the family court system is disastrous.
Social services and the family court system (with all of its evil dwarf hangers on – see the child kidnapper in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a reasonable meme ) analytically are machines of gross child abuse.
Why is it tolerated ? Because all the evil dwarves are scared to let the truth be known.
In human history. secrecy mixed with power always leads to vile crimes.
Those who are the evil dwarves in the front line, are psychologically damaged. Those higher up are more motivated by money and very badly thought out ideology.
How do we change this vile situation ?
Charles Dickens made a mark, but it quickly got absorbed as acceptable stories of ‘THOSE’ bad people.
Solzhenitsyn made his mark, but it was again absorbed as acceptable stories of ‘THOSE’ bad people.
Large numbers of individuals get the horror stories of what happened to them or their children or grandchildren – but still, it all gets absorbed as acceptable stories of ‘THOSE’ bad people.
Ukraine is one of the interesting modern examples (and there are plenty to choose from). It had one of the world’s highest emigration rates before all of this war stuff. It also had extreme levels of children in care – unwanted, abandoned, health difficulties. All that and more. What happened when the war started ? the children became worse off !! Not only more abandoned, not only did the facilities for cared children degrade drastically, but the child traffickers were having a feeding frenzy ….
Let’s be clear, our modern civilisation as a whole is vile in its self centric ways.
How do you tackle that problem – as most people do not even see it as a problem.
It has to come from the top – but wait – –
Biden create wars ?
Truss make them poor ?
Johnson look at me, I’m pretending to be Churchill ?
Patel – send them to Rwanda ?
It is little wonder that governments participate highly in the misinformation wars …
My own project is to stop much of this, and it requires removing misinformation and distractions …
This is a hint –
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“In human history. secrecy mixed with power always leads to vile crimes.”
Couldnt have put it better myself.
The SS have a trail of vile crimes from here to the moon and and back, yet they remain untouchable.
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More transparency, I believe there should be complete transparency, particularly when it comes to;
SS, lawyers, solicitors, CAFCASS representatives and judges.
Who have all previously, and who still unbelievably to this very day, openly, before the country and the world, continue to participate in horrifically violating the perjury act of 1911, unchallenged, WOW unbelievable, dictatorship at its best.
Now, Im I, or are we to believe, that a group as prestige as the Transparency Implementation Group, prestige in regards the origins of its birth, could only come up with only 6 questions
When it comes to a subject as important as transparency.
Especially when it comes to the unbelievable track and current record, that the family court has when it comes to the serious and excessive breaches of human right and corruption.
In regard to questions of guidance, we could could continue with;
Number 7.)
“What should happen in the family court if perjury is detected”.
What other question would you put fourth, that you think that should be in the questions of guidance?
For me, the issue that must be tackled and not be tolerated at all, first and foremost, is the act of perjury, perjury must not be tolerated.
Without the truth being practised, any practice that’s practised becomes the breeding ground for;
1.)
Criminality to be practiced
(As it has been, and continues to be, in the family court).
2.)
Acts of physical and spiritual wickedness being committed.
(As it has, and it continues to do so in the family court, at the hands of SS, lawyers, solicitors, CAFCASS representatives and judges).
3.)
And therefore, the complete destruction of hundreds and thousands of families, across the country and the world.
Which the SS, lawyers, solicitors, CAFCASS representatives and judges again, have all participated in, and continue to do so to this very day.
Perjury Act 1911;
“If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true.
He shall be guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof on indictment, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to imprisonment”.
I rest my case.
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I agree
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More transparency, I believe there should be complete transparency, particularly when it comes to;
SS, lawyers, solicitors, CAFCASS representatives and judges.
Who have all previously, and who still unbelievably to this very day, openly, before the country and the world, continue to participate in horrifically violating the perjury act of 1911, unchallenged, WOW unbelievable, dictatorship at its best.
Now, am I, or are we to believe, that a group as prestige as the Transparency Implementation Group, prestige in regards the origins of its birth, could only come up with only 6 questions
When it comes to a subject as important as transparency.
Especially when it comes to the unbelievable track and current record, that the family court has when it comes to the serious and excessive breaches of human right and corruption.
In regard to questions of guidance, we could could continue with;
Number 7.)
“What should happen in the family court if perjury is detected”.
What other question would you put fourth, that you think that should be in the questions of guidance?
For me, the issue that must be tackled and not be tolerated at all, first and foremost, is the act of perjury, perjury must not be tolerated.
Without the truth being practised, any practice that’s practised becomes the breeding ground for;
1.)
Criminality to be practiced
(As it has been, and continues to be, in the family court).
2.)
Acts of physical and spiritual wickedness being committed.
(As it has, and it continues to do so in the family court, at the hands of SS, lawyers, solicitors, CAFCASS representatives and judges).
3.)
And therefore, the complete destruction of hundreds and thousands of families, across the country and the world.
Which the SS, lawyers, solicitors, CAFCASS representatives and judges again, have all participated in, and continue to do so to this very day.
Perjury Act 1911;
“If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true.
He shall be guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof on indictment, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years, or to imprisonment”.
I rest my case.
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