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Articles listing» Monthly Family Law Updaters » Public Law Children » Z County Council v TS Ors [2008] EWHC 1773 (Fam)


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Z County Council v TS Ors [2008] EWHC 1773 (Fam)


 

Judgment concerning disclosure and publicity issues arising out of care proceedings.




The issues arose from care proceedings which had been the subject of an authorised, anonymised documentary shown on a news programme. For the first documentary Hedley J had made a schedule of anonymisation. The TV producers now wanted to make a follow-up programme and so applied to vary that schedule.

 

In this judgment Hedley J identifies the central issue to be whether any relaxation of the anonymisation would lead to the identification of the child and specifically rejected any arguments that the issue was the need for justice to be seen to be done in public. After reviewing the guidelines post Clayton he first concludes that a) no family members can be identified; b) the mother's face cannot be shown even if no name is given and; c) the school or teachers cannot be named. He also concluded that the local authority and social workers should not be identified as that could lead to the identification of the child.  

 

Download the full judgment here

 

 



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