Dr Julie Doughty
@juliedoughty.bsky.social
lawyer (retired solicitor; academic). Live in Wales now, although still Australian. Child law; media law. Legal blogger in family courts for The Transparency Project www.transparencyproject.org.uk (contact me there as I don't receive DMs on Bluesky)
MPs quiz @commissionerda.bsky.social @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social Cafcass and 'top' family court judge on reforms
The House of Commons Parliamentary Justice Committee held a session on 28 October to look at ‘Reform of the Family Court’. We’re not sure what was meant by ‘reform’ – this was never specified - but the session had four important witnesses... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=30117
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
MPs quiz @commissionerda.bsky.social @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social Cafcass and 'top' family court judge on reforms
Helpful guide for litigants in person in family courts on a realistic approach to using AI to 'improve' your case
Lawyer v AI [2025] PT (Fam) – Some thoughts for litigants in person on the risks of using AI in your Family Court case
pinktape.co.uk/rants/lawyer...
pinktape.co.uk/rants/lawyer...
Lawyer v AI [2025] PT (Fam) – Some thoughts for litigants in person on the risks of using AI in your Family Court case
If I had a quid for every email that comes into my inbox about the use of AI in law, I’d be retiring. Horror stories about lawyers misusing AI, lying about using AI, dire warnings about hallucinati…
pinktape.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Helpful guide for litigants in person in family courts on a realistic approach to using AI to 'improve' your case
I don't know if these stats are accurate but I do know there are many many more hairdressers locally than GPs. Is that not the case where Streeting lives?
Can you see the problem 🤷🏻♂️
Wes Streeting can’t 🤦🏻♂️
31million/month consult GP practices with similar number having haircuts
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
On average people spend £400pa on hair
GPs receive £169pa per patient
Wes Streeting can’t 🤦🏻♂️
31million/month consult GP practices with similar number having haircuts
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
On average people spend £400pa on hair
GPs receive £169pa per patient
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I don't know if these stats are accurate but I do know there are many many more hairdressers locally than GPs. Is that not the case where Streeting lives?
something to make us smile
From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
something to make us smile
This interview with Prof Marion Brandon in Community Care helped me make much more sense of 'neglect' in child protection www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/11/15/l...
Lessons from two decades analysing serious case reviews - Community Care
Professor Marian Brandon reflects on 15 years of analysing serious case reviews for England and Wales and the complexity of neglect
www.communitycare.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This interview with Prof Marion Brandon in Community Care helped me make much more sense of 'neglect' in child protection www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/11/15/l...
I went to Waterstones to look for this book. Couldn't find it. Would have asked but there was only one person on a till (two floor shop) and a queue of about 12, so I left empty handed. Seems crazy for retailers to advertise to christmas shoppers but not employ enough staff.
Yesterday's Bankside Gallery talk about the book ‘Reframing Women Printmakers’ by PL Henderson - with the publisher and some of the fantastic printmakers featured in the book, below.
Thanks to all who came along!!
🧡💛🤎
Thanks to all who came along!!
🧡💛🤎
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I went to Waterstones to look for this book. Couldn't find it. Would have asked but there was only one person on a till (two floor shop) and a queue of about 12, so I left empty handed. Seems crazy for retailers to advertise to christmas shoppers but not employ enough staff.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sara-sh... highlights pressure on gov. to expand the Pathfinder more quickly to family courts
Sara Sharif review reveals family court failings
Child Safeguarding Practice Review raises concerns about the process for private law proceedings.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sara-sh... highlights pressure on gov. to expand the Pathfinder more quickly to family courts
huge congratulations @louisetickle.bsky.social and @hansummers.bsky.social winners of Society of Editors awards - National Campaign of the Year for their work on transparency in family courts
Congratulations to @hansummers.bsky.social and @louisetickle.bsky.social for this award. Good to see Family Court Transparency and the hard work that goes into it being recognised.
Massive congratulations to @tbij.bsky.social's family court reporter @hansummers.bsky.social who, alongside @louisetickle.bsky.social, won Campaign of the Year at last night's Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards. Hugely well-deserved
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
huge congratulations @louisetickle.bsky.social and @hansummers.bsky.social winners of Society of Editors awards - National Campaign of the Year for their work on transparency in family courts
helpful post here on defamation law from @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
The BBC has apologised to President Donald Trump and withdrawn the edition of Panorama over which he threatened to sue for $1 billion, apparently satisfying two of the three demands made in a letter from his lawyer last weekend.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/bbc-apolog...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/bbc-apolog...
BBC apologises to Trump
But it says there is no basis for a defamation claim
rozenberg.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
helpful post here on defamation law from @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
yes but her Cardiff gig sold out before I tried to book :-(
BBC Radio 6 Music
Riley & Coe
Now Playing
Gwenifer Raymond
Bliws Afon Tâf
Riley & Coe
Now Playing
Gwenifer Raymond
Bliws Afon Tâf
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
yes but her Cardiff gig sold out before I tried to book :-(
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My main takeaway of the whole Epstein thing is that women, on a very fundamental level, still don‘t really matter.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My main takeaway of the whole Epstein thing is that women, on a very fundamental level, still don‘t really matter.
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analysis of the Safeguarding Review of the murder of Sara Sharif
Chris Barnes represented the journalists, Louise Tickle and Hannah Summers, in proceedings before the High Court and Court of Appeal arising from applications for the disclosure of papers from the family proceedings concerning Sara and her family. On... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=30083
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
analysis of the Safeguarding Review of the murder of Sara Sharif
Reposted by Dr Julie Doughty
The government has announced that Police and Crime Commissioners will be scrapped in 2028 - which would have been the next elections - saying it will "cut the cost of unnecessary bureaucracy"
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Elected police and crime commissioners can be 'absolutely bleeding hopeless', report told
Officers tell researchers Coalition government changes left 'bonkers' structure of British policing
www.independent.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The government has announced that Police and Crime Commissioners will be scrapped in 2028 - which would have been the next elections - saying it will "cut the cost of unnecessary bureaucracy"
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
worth reading www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Based on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
worth reading www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young. This, from Stereogum, where they ask 80 artists including Jeff Tweedy, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, Michael Stipe, Open Mike Eagle, Tom Morello, Kurt Vile, Allison Russell, Matt Berninger, Perfume Genius, A-Trak, for their favorite Neil song is worth a read.
80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Neil Young Song
Happy 80th birthday, Neil Young!
stereogum.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young. This, from Stereogum, where they ask 80 artists including Jeff Tweedy, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, Michael Stipe, Open Mike Eagle, Tom Morello, Kurt Vile, Allison Russell, Matt Berninger, Perfume Genius, A-Trak, for their favorite Neil song is worth a read.
Times ordered to pay costs to Angela Rayner's disabled son's trust - Times Media Limited v Rayner (Costs) - Find Case Law - The National Archives share.google/Bjtr2nGHwtD7...
Times Media Limited v Rayner (Costs) -
Find Case Law
- The National Archives
share.google
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Times ordered to pay costs to Angela Rayner's disabled son's trust - Times Media Limited v Rayner (Costs) - Find Case Law - The National Archives share.google/Bjtr2nGHwtD7...
Reposted by Dr Julie Doughty
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
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I actually think that Tim McInerney is one of our most underrated actors.
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I actually think that Tim McInerney is one of our most underrated actors.
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Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
but did Gordon Lightfoot write a song?
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
but did Gordon Lightfoot write a song?
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Grandmother successfully applies to be named in this case on her application to be Special Guardian to 5 yo girl whose mother was killed by the father
This court judgment – [2025] EWFC 374 – has been published with two names: one is Re A (A Child) (Mother killed by Father) and the other: Linda Westcarr v Gogoa Lois Tape (1) A (2) The Paternal Grandmother (3)The Paternal Grandfather (4) and The... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=30061
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Grandmother successfully applies to be named in this case on her application to be Special Guardian to 5 yo girl whose mother was killed by the father
there were 150 observers exchanging views apparently
Open justice is supposed to enhance public trust + confidence in the justice system - but in this case it had the opposite effect.
What does the Supreme Court need to do differently to make sure COP observers have a better experience next time?
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...
What does the Supreme Court need to do differently to make sure COP observers have a better experience next time?
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...
When open justice undermines public confidence: Scrutinising the Supreme Court
Justice is not a cloistered virtue; she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men
openjusticecourtofprotection.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
there were 150 observers exchanging views apparently
Media and Tort lawyers: How can US President sue for libel? What about Sullivan v NYT?
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Media and Tort lawyers: How can US President sue for libel? What about Sullivan v NYT?
Reposted by Dr Julie Doughty
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
