Last month the Ministry of Justice announced that it was to scrutinise legislation passed in Labour’s Children, Schools and Families Act that would extend the media’s right to report on family court cases.
Today (11 October) junior children’s minister Tim Loughton and courts minister Jonathan Djanogly said that the government would wait until the completion of the family justice review before deciding whether to continue with these changes.
Djanogly said: "The privacy of vulnerable children and families, and the media's freedom to scrutinise, are sensitive issues, on which a broad range of views have been strongly expressed, and we need to be clear on the family justice system's future direction before settling that debate."
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