TRANSPARENCY IN THE FAMILY COURTS
PUBLICATION OF JUDGMENTS
PRACTICE GUIDANCE
issued on 16 January 2014
by
SIR JAMES MUNBY, PRESIDENT OF THE FAMILY DIVISION
“In both courts there is a need for greater transparency in order to improve
public understanding of the court process and confidence in the court system. At
present too few judgments are made available to the public, which has a legitimate
interest in being able to read what is being done by the judges in its name. The
Guidance will have the effect of increasing the number of judgments available for
publication (even if they will often need to be published in appropriately anonymised
form)…….”
Sorry Mr Munby…..Nothing less than a completely transparent and open family court system will do !! The protests will continue.
All decent parents and grandparents have inalienable rights to share in the care and upbringing of their children and grandchildren, and the breaking of the bond between child and parent is a grotesque travesty of natural justice
The famous Jurist, and legal and social reformer Jeremy Bentham, famously wrote of democratic justice:
“In the darkness of secrecy, sinister interest and evil in every shape, have full swing. Where there is no publicity there is no justice..Publicity is the very soul of justice. It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial.”
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