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Dr Julie Doughty, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University School of Law and Politics. She has previously worked as a solicitor and for local government and Cafcass. She currently teaches in family and child law, trusts, and media law. She has been researching privacy and openness in family courts for more than ten years. She recently led a research project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation which evaluated the effects of the transparency guidance issued to judges by the President in January 2014. The project report is currently under consideration by the President of the Family Division. This is available at:
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/news/family-court-transparency-plans-fall-short-judges-struggle-find-time-publish-judgments-safely
Julie has also undertaken research on adoption; expert witnesses, care proceedings, and the Court of Protection. Julie is also a Consulting Editor on Hershman and McFarlane. Lucy Reed KC practices from St John's Chambers, Bristol and 36 Family (Call 2002). She is the author of The Family Court without a Lawyer - A Handbook for litigants in person (Bath Publishing, 2022) and the award-winning 'Pink Tape' blog, and the Chair of The Transparency Project. She is a Recorder on the Western Circuit. Lucy regularly delivers talks on family law, litigants in person and transparency issues. She has written several articles on family justice in both the legal and mainstream press. In practice, Lucy's specialism is child law, with an emphasis on public law proceedings. Paul Magrath is Head of Product Development and Online Content at the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR). He is a non-practising barrister who has worked as a law reporter, editor and legal commentator for many years. He edited Creating Case History: The Law Reports 1865-2015 Anniversary Edition (ICLR 2015) and contributed to Galligan (Ed), The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe? (Hart 2021). He is currently responsible for developing and maintaining the ICLR online legal database platform, and is a trustee of the Transparency Project. He is also a member of the Courts and Tribunals Observers' Network. |