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15 May 2015

Playing by Aussie Rules

I blogged last week over on the Transparency Project about a lecture I attended by an Australian Judge Ian Kennedy AM, where he provided really useful materials used down under for the standardised anonymisation of judgments in family matters. I am certainly going to use these as a starting point when I next get passed the buck, and will suggest to the judiciary that they do likewise.

Here are the guidelines in use in Australia : Anonymisation Guidelines.

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Last week the Public Accounts Committee published a damning report telling us that family justice was failing...

I may have been gone some time…

Posts are getting ever more infrequent around here. Doubtless in part because of my continuing inability to say 'no'....

2 Comments

  1. JDQC

    Meant to say ‘thanks ‘ for posting this guide weeks ago. Apols got delay. Lovely to see you and Zoe at CL. All the best. Jo

    Reply
    • familoo

      Likewise JDQC 🙂

      Reply

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