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“Your Honour, may I hand up my case summary, and a pastrami on rye?”
Do judicial decisions fluctuate with extraneous factors, such as how hungry the Judge is? Of course not, you foolish Suesspicious Minds… Or rather, maybe they do, but only for those American...
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“I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave, as a result of subsection 9(b) (iv) (a)”
Another little thought experiment, on Judges this time. Now, clearly Judges at first instance have to very carefully assess the evidence, and the nuances and tone and demeanour of witnesses and...
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The Ofsted, and Action for Children research on neglect
You may have heard that Ofsted this week published some research on neglect, the over-arching theme being that some children are being left in neglectful situations for too long...
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Adoption breakdown research
A lot of people, including the House of Lords when they asked questions about the rate of adoption breakdown and found that there was no clear answer, have been wanting to see some good research on...
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Research and stats round-up
A few important reports on statistics / research documents have come out in the last two weeks. I’m afraid that I don’t have enough time to write about each in depth, but I’ll give you the headlines...
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Cheshire West fallout
There’s an excellent piece of investigative work by Community Care about the escalation in the number of Deprivation of Liberty cases since the Supreme Court made a substantial change to the law in...
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You wouldn’t ask a restaurant critic to write the review without tasting the...
Judith Masson has just published her research on judicial feedback – it’s a very readable piece of research and has a lot of interesting nuggets within it....
View ArticleRunaway train, never going back
The British Association of Social Workers, BASW, commissioned an independent report to look at adoption. The report has just been published. There’s a summary piece at the Guardian about it...
View ArticleMaking Special Guardianship Order before child has lived with prospective carers
This Court of Appeal decision raises a number of interesting and important issues. (It doesn’t have anything amusing in it or any 80s references, but you can’t have it all. If you want, you can...
View ArticleResearch by ALC on “Fire-eating Courts” (sorry, “Settlement Conferences”)
We are still waiting for the Ministry of Justice research on the settlement conference pilot. I think we’re two years overdue on the publication of the research into the impact of the legal aid...
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