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Open justice, privacy & family proceedings in 2022: Pt 2

03 June 2022 / David Burrows
Issue: 7981 / Categories: Features
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Time to steady the law on privacy & anonymity in family proceedings? David Burrows makes the case
  • The hierarchical system of precedent and stare decisis.
  • The rationes of Mr Justice Mostyn’s previous decisions regarding the privacy position in family cases.
  • The need to take account of all relevant aspects to privacy of the CPR 39 and FPR 2010 as representing a codification of the common law.

A short series of judgments over the past few months have seen Mr Justice Mostyn recant former views on privacy in family proceedings and—especially on anonymity—to alter his previous position as a judge. The most recent of these cases is Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30 (X).

Part 1 of this two-part series asserted that open justice comprises four main elements:

(1) Is the court open for general purposes, as is the case with most criminal and civil proceedings?

(2) What documents can be released to non-parties (eg the press) before a hearing (eg pleadings, skeleton arguments)?

(3) What

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