There is another excellent article in the Times (17th June 2006) by Cammilla Cavendish on secrecy in the Family Courts called Guilty Until Proved Innocent: the grotesque reality of family courts.
it begins:-
There is something I wanted to write about today. But I cannot. I cannot even tell you that I cannot tell you, because to do so might be to imply what it was I wanted to write about. And that might lead you to infer that I was referring to a situation that I should not refer to. Get it? No? (more)