The judge granted a reporting restriction order which prohibited only: the naming of the minor children, the publication of photographs of them, identification of their schools or the place where they live; the reporting of the content of the advice of jointly-instructed tax counsel and the court’s consequential calculations of the value to be taken of certain potential tax liabilities of the husband; and the reporting of the advice given to the husband of the risks he faces in the Irish litigation and the court’s consequent calculation of the amount of potential damages to be taken into account.
The President of the Family Division held that it was no longer acceptable for the Family Court simply, and passively, to accept that a post-mortem report in a suspected child homicide would take a year and that the family proceedings involving the surviving child(ren) had to therefore be put on hold.
The court held, among other things, that an interim blanket RRO should be made to endure until the husband’s application was considered substantively during final submissions.