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21/10/2008
Senior judge says lift media ban in family courts |
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Britain's most senior family judge has called for a lift on the ban on the media in family court proceedings after what he described as the distortion of the public's perception of the legal process.
Commenting in an exclusive interview with the Times, Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division, expressed concern over the need for "greater transparency".
Sir Mark did, however, note the importance of retaining the anonymity of children involved in family law cases.
He explained that the current ban had created a system where “often tendentious and misleading descriptions in the media have distorted the public perception of the legal process and inhibited its understanding of how that process works”.
There should, he said, be room for judges to use their discretion to hold hearings in private if, for instance, matrimonial disputes involved issues which could be of no interest to the public "save for sensationalism and prurience", the paper reported.
Mr Justice Coleridge recently said recently that there should be provision for quick dispute resolution in divorce cases where couples can agree the terms of a separation or divorce. |
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