Family inspectorate

Family lawyers’ group Resolution wants a “Family Courts’ Inspectorate”, with a majority of lay members, to act as a guardian of standards.

From this week, accredited journalists can attend divorce, custody and care proceedings, unless specifically excluded by the court. However, Andrew Greensmith, Resolution’s spokesman on family court transparency, says: “These changes simply tinker at the edges of the issue and have created a system which could well make matters worse when members of the public
and press realise that details of cases cannot not be made public.”