End the secrecy of the family court

• Guest 4700

  • Registered: 6 Apr 2022
  • Posts: 1
  28 April 2023     12:17381057
  #1      
  I’ve made a petition – will you sign it and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE to lift the secrecy of the Family Court.
  
  Click this link to sign the petition:
  https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637351/sponsors/new?token=UQPFmlJxQPnOQf4HPO5E
  
  My petition:
  
  Allow family court participants the the press to publically report on cases.
  
  To allow for openness at the family court. To allow public scrutiny of this institution.
  
  Click this link to sign the petition:
  https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637351/sponsors/new?token=UQPFmlJxQPnOQf4HPO5E
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
  • Posts: 3,109
  28 April 2023     12:41381058
  #2      
  See:
  
  Hearings in the Family courts are held in private but the press and legal bloggers may attend a hearing, subject to the power of the judge to exclude them. Where the press or legal bloggers attend, they may not report what is said in the hearing without the permission of the court.
  
  Also:
  
  The judges of the Family Court and the Family Division of the High Court do not normally wear judicial robes and the proceedings are more informal than those in a Criminal Court. This reflects the often very sensitive nature of Family proceedings and the need to ensure that proceedings do not increase the distress of the parties involved.
  (Not my real name.)
• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
  • Posts: 23,948
  29 April 2023     09:37381071
  #3      
  I'm not sure having it the public eye meets everyone's needs
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