Lexis®Library update: The report outlines how, despite BAILII enhancing the transparency and understanding of decisions, it can also lead to the anonymity and safety of children being compromised, as considered by the President of the Family Division’s 2018 Practice Guidance.
The report, by means of attempting to bridge this issue, ie prioritising anonymity and wider privacy rights while meeting the needs for transparency, has made several recommendations. Two key recommendations to be considered as a priority are:
• ‘halt to posting judgments concerning the sexual abuse of children, and the removal of those already posted, pending a review and full implementation of Guidance on these judgments’
• ‘no automatic presumption of “posting” of public law children judgments, and a pause in posting children judgments pending the operational changes made in the report’
To read the report, see: Privacy and Safeguarding. Evaluation of practice guidance (2018): children judgments.
See, also: Practice Guidance: Family Court – Anonymisation guidance.
Source: New guidance for judges on the anonymisation of children in family court judgments
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