Lucy Reed interviewed by the press regulator Impress on Legal blogging and the President’s Transparency guidance

On 29 October 2019, The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, issued new guidance for reporting in the Family Courts to ‘assist the court, the parties and the media in circumstances where a reporter attending court may wish to apply to vary reporting restrictions in a case before the Family Court or the Family Division of the High Court’.

Impress Complaints and Investigations Manager, Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana, spoke with Lucy Reed of the Transparency Project about their work, the main challenges of family court reporting and what this new guidance means for journalists. Read the full interview here.