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The Transform Justice PodcastEp19: Behind closed doors - is justice 'seen to be done'?"Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done." Lord Hewart's oft-quoted phrase is just as relevant almost 100 years on. In this episode, we ask how transparent justice processes are in two courts - the Court of Protection and the Family Court.
Hosts Rob and Penelope are joined by Sanchia Berg, BBC radio correspondent, and Celia Kitzinger, co-director of the Open Justice Court of Protection Project to discuss if and why some cases need to be shielded from public observation, barriers to accessing court hearings, and what could be improved to ensure...
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sanchia7Radio 4 Today package on Lifelong Links scheme #care#FamilyRightsGroup #LifelongLinks #Care Review
2021-02-0405 min
sanchia7Tashaun Aird - Talented musician, murdered at 15 after school exclusion#exclusion #tashaun #Alternative Provision
2020-12-2306 min
sanchia7Ivan Berg Podcast Memoir Part 5Ivan sails to South Africa and South America... a world away from Hackney and Austerity . There's an unfortunate incident involving Crepes Suzette.. and he meets "Esmerelda" a beautiful, rich young Brazilian girl...
2020-09-1021 min
sanchia7Ivan Berg:Podcast Memoir Episode 4. First trips at seaIvan starts work as a saloon boy and steward, sailing to South Africa. Hard work, the waiter known as Mabel, and drag shows in the crew bar.
2020-09-0520 min
sanchia7Ivan Berg Podcast Memoir Part 31953 continued : more jobs, and Ivan signs up for sea school aged 16 - dreaming of exotic foreign travel. His parents are not happy.
2020-09-0419 min
sanchia7Ivan Berg Podcast Memoir :Part 2.1945--1953. Peacetime. Life in a prefab, arrival of a baby brother, getting into Grammar School.... and bunking off. First business - as a teenage entrepreneur, and first, short-lived, jobs.
2020-08-3121 min
sanchia7Ivan Berg - Podcast MemoirFirst part of memoir spanning five decades (so far!) Ivan Berg's wartime memories 1939--1945. Evacuee, back in London for the Blitz - then sent away again, with father at war, mother in hospital, to a Kindertransport Hostel.
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sanchia7Alternative Provision CoronavirusHeadteachers of Alternative Provision schools worry their Y11 pupils are at risk of criminal or sexual exploitation, out of school for so long. On 0636 @BBCR4Today 26/6/2020
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sanchia7Family justice in the pandemic#urgentcare proceedings #familycourt #Macfarlane #bornintocare
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2020-04-1503 minsanchia7Alzheimer's Society calls for immediate action to tackle Coronavirus in care homes#dementia #coronavirus #carehome #COvid19
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sanchia7The return of the council house ?#housing #council #social housing #BBCBriefing #Bristol #Barking
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sanchia7Secret Barrister on election and courts @BBCR4TodayFull version of piece including Magistrates Courts and party policy
2019-11-2004 minsanchia7Secret Barrister on election and courts @BBCR4TodaySpoken by an actor #barristersecret on #electionpromises and reality of court system now for @BBCr4today
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sanchia7Foreign Office and fake newsSecret propaganda department of the Foreign Office produced fake news to prompt anti communist reaction in Cold War Africa.
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sanchia7The Will of Princess LouiseQueen Victoria's rebel daughter left unpaid debts - including one for cigarettes - and a fabulous jewellery and art collection. My radio package here.
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sanchia7Andrew Hosken - Legal AId DesertAndrew Hosken of The World Tonight on the Legal Aid Desert in mid Wales
2018-12-1105 min
sanchia7Hilary Ineomo Marcus - speaking from detentionHIlary Ineomo Marcus - detained earlier this week, faces deportation from Monday. He came to Britain when he was ten: he has a British wife and two small British children.
2018-11-2200 min
sanchia7Should spitting image come back ?Roger Law is donating the Spitting Image archive to Cambridge University
2018-11-1404 min
sanchia7Litigants in Person 2010My piece on Litigants in Person from 2010: highlights growing problem, Stephen Cobb QC warns of no "equality of arms" in domestic violence cases
2018-11-0906 min
sanchia7Chelsea Pensioners on remembranceJohn Humphreys, veteran of Africa campaign and Arnhem, escaped from two POW camps, and Helen Andrews, ex-Bletchley Park, tell me their stories and talk of WW1, and remembrance.
2018-11-0804 min
sanchia7Postcards from the TrenchesFrom @BBCR4today this morning : .Between 1915 and 1916 a young German artist, conscripted, sent postcard sized paintings back home to his girlfriend: scenes from the trenches. Not barbed wire and corpses in the mud, but (mostly) more peaceful scenes. A unique set of @Pastpostcards....now published by @BloomsburyBooks Thanks to @CameronPercival of @BBCRadioDrama for reading Otto's messages
2018-11-0604 min
sanchia7Dorothy Bohm, 94Interview from @bbcR4today 0820. Dorothy Bohm on trying to focus on the inspiring,not the upsetting .From a Jewish family, she escaped the Holocaust by coming to school in Britain, in June 1939. New exhibition of her pictures of children at V + A museum of childhood from this weekend.
2018-11-0104 min
sanchia7Planned change to law would put vulnerable adults "at risk" says law society@sanchia7 piece with Mr and Mrs E: @Marthakearney interview with @ShereeGreen17 of @TheLawSociety
2018-10-1205 min
sanchia7Born into care : Today item this morningAnnie Bertram, whose baby was taken away just after birth plus Professor Karen Broadhurst of Lancaster University, lead researcher, new report "Born Into Care". FIndings include : dramatic rise in care proceedings involving children in first week of life. Significant variation, by region and especially by local authority.
2018-10-1005 min
sanchia7Toyota /Brexit : my piece from SaturdayPeter Tsouvallaris, convenor for Unite the Union - concerned that if the "good" at Burnaston are lost, they may never come back. The Managing Director of the Toyota plant told me "crashing out of the EU without a deal" would mean stops in his assembly line.
2018-10-0104 min
sanchia7Life Expectancy 2017In May 2017 on @bbcr4today we looked at the reasons why life expectancy wasn't improving at the expected rate, with help from @bridgendtownCC - its oldest and youngest members - and @bbcmoreorless
2018-09-2505 min
sanchia7BOOKMARKS /TODAYPiece about the invasion of @Bookmarks_books on @BBCR4today this morning at #0725 . Noel Halifax - describes the scene - David Gilchrist on support .
2018-08-0904 min
sanchia7Major Maastricht and Rees MoggMy piece from Tuesday with Sir Roderic Lyne, on John Major's papers, released at the National Archives .
2018-07-2504 min
sanchia7Richard Ingrams on Denis ThatcherRichard Ingrams, author of the "Dear Bill" letters, on the real life Denis Thatcher as revealed in Mrs Thatcher's private files made public by her foundation at @ChuArchives . PIece broadcast 21/7/2018
2018-07-2503 min
sanchia7Dramatic variation in adoption ratesThe Family Courts can barely cope with the volume of new care cases - brought by local authorities seeking to take children away from their families. It's a crisis - say both incoming and outgoing Presidents of the Family Division. Yet there is dramatic variation between local authorities, as illustrated by research by Professor Andy Bilson, who tracked two cohorts of children, using FOI. He found that in Southampton, a child born in 2011-12 was twelve times more likely to be adopted by the age of 5, than a child born in Greenwich. Sanchia Berg reports .
2018-06-1406 min
sanchia7Down's Syndrome and DementiaFeature on @BBCR4Today - earlier this month - on how people with Down's are more likely to get dementia, and to get it at younger age ... .. and how research may help. @DSAInfo photo competition winner here.
2018-05-3005 min
sanchia7Tackling exam stress - 2018#Tapton school in Sheffield - senior teachers and students describe how they're dealing with stress. Tough year as many more exams than before . First broadcast 21 May 2018
2018-05-3003 min
sanchia7Grenfell - fire resistance - 30 mayPackage from @bbcr4today on #Grenfell Inquiry, fire resistance and safety.
2018-05-3003 min
sanchia7British Veteran of Korean WarColin Thackery, 88, Korean War veteran and Chelsea Pensioner, gives his view of the meeting between leaders of North and South Korea.
2018-04-2902 minsanchia7Guiding A New Generationpiece on #Hackney meeting from @BBCR4today TX06042018 0730 "Guiding a New Generation"
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sanchia7Bill was a child migrant aged 9 -from North London to AustraliaIn 2010, Bill Malone travelled from his home in Australia to London, to hear Gordon Brown apologise for the child migrant policy that ruined his life. He'd been a bright pupil at St George's Enfield, but had been sent to Bindoon in Western Australia. His education was halted, he was repeatedly sexually abused. I took him back to his old London school, to meet some of the pupils. He told me then that an apology wasn't enough - former child migrants should have compensation. Today the IICSA has said that's what they should have.
2018-03-0103 min
sanchia7How to Reboot Ebbsfleet Garden CityMichael Cassidy, chair of Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, on why the progress of the new Garden City has been slow, and how to "reboot" it.
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sanchia7Children are "invisible" in Family Justice System#VoiceoftheChild #FamilyLaw ~Munby #BBCR4Today
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2017-10-1203 minsanchia7Dramatic rise in women who have successive children taken into care@BBCR4today #careproceedings #LancasterUniversity
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sanchia7#OfftheGrid 5 FlytippingFlytipping the scourge of the countryside - suggested by several listeners of @BBCR4Today #GE17 @bbcR4Today
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sanchia7Secret Drug Trials on Children in Approved SchoolsInvestigation showing how Home Office supported secret drug trials on children in Approved Schools
2017-01-0604 min
2016-11-2504 min
sanchia7Pioneering family court has sustained impactSanchia Berg pkg and interview with DJ Crichton about #FDAC new research
2016-09-2608 min
sanchia7Three generations #Hull #Labour#Labour voting #Hull family disagree about #EURef . They watched Farage/Cameron ... hear what happened #BBCR4Today
2016-06-1003 min
sanchia7Communists in the BBC?Conservative MP urged Churchill to hunt for Communist infiltrators in public life - especially the BBC.
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sanchia7A solution to the housing crisis ?#housing #sanchiaberg #R4today #richardrogers #pocketliving
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2015-11-2805 min2015-11-2404 minsanchia7Peter Donaldson : talking about reading the post-apocalypse scripts#PeterDonaldson #Voice of Doom
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2015-11-0300 minsanchia7Sent to Australia as a child migrant at 9, Bill Malone returns to his English primary schoolAudio feature from 2/2010 now timely again as V&A Exhibition opens
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