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No one found guilty of contempt should be jailed in secret, two of the country’s most senior judges have declared in a strong stand for open justice.
The lord chief justice Lord Judge (pictured) and Sir James Munby, who is both head of the High Court’s Family Division and the Court of Protection, issued practice guidance today stating that people should ‘never’ be sent to prison without the public being told.
‘Hey-ho the witch is dead.’
This isn’t a piece about Margaret Thatcher’s life or death. But as with a handful of court cases from the past year, I’m struck by the language used – that, and the fact it often passes without comment.
At the start of the book Witchcraft, excellent late-historian Christine Larner recalled a scene from the preparation for a left-leaning demonstration held while Thatcher was PM.
Judgments must be clearer and more concise if the public is to retain confidence in the justice system, according to president of the Supreme Court Lord Neuberger.
In the annual Bailii lecture this week, Neuberger said the increasing appearance of the self-represented litigant has accelerated the need to improve the clarity of judgments.
He described limiting the intended readership to lawyers, judges and academics as ‘myopic’.
Greater case management by judges is at the heart of the judiciary’s proposals for the modernisation of family justice, published today.
Mr Justice Ryder, the judge in charge of the family court modernisation process accompanying the Crime and Courts Bill, set out his plans to improve the workings of family courts this morning.
The bill currently before parliament provides for a new single family court to replace and simplify existing arrangements. Its launch will provide the vehicle for the modernisation programme.
I have heard it said that judges cannot get involved in pro bono work. On the contrary, I can think of many and various ways in which judges might get involved. And, in fact, a good number are already doing so.
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