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View from the Foot of the Tower: Sharing our bewilderments

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Date:4 JUN 2014
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Andrew Pack
Care Lawyer

'We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.' ― C.S. Lewis

Transparency in family court proceedings is now an uncorked genie; not only by virtue of the President’s guidance but just the modern culture makes it something that could never be put back in the bottle. We live at a moment in history where the media and general public can not only be curious about conversations that took place between the Prime Minister and the President of the United States but demandto see transcripts and be indignant when they are not forthcoming.

Since February 2014 county court judgments on care proceedings and adoption cases have been published in anonymised format online. There is inevitably a degree of lag (one has to wait for the transcription for the anonymisation process for the judge...

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