This item first appeared on the F.A.C.T. website on 14th February 2005
There has been a lot of concern in recent months about secrecy in Family Courts. Members might wish to know that the Government have issued a consultation paper on the disclosure of information in Family Proceedings Cases involving children.
This consultation paper from the Department for Constitutional Affairs sets out the Government's proposals for the circumstances in which information from family proceedings cases involving children can be disclosed without permission of the court. The Government is seeking views on the proposed content of rules of court which would specify who could disclose information to whom, the information they could disclose and in what circumstances disclosure would be permissible.
The consultation document can be accessed on the Department for Constitutional Affairs website. Responses are sought by 23 March 2005.