by reporting watch team | Oct 15, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting and clarifying media reports of family cases; Explaining or commenting on published Judgments of family cases; Other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES: Re W – The Wrong End of the Stick (blog here) PUBLISHED FAMILY COURT...
by reporting watch team | Oct 12, 2016 | FCReportingWatch
Mr Justice Keehan has taken the unusual step, not just of creating a short extra judgment for, but also writing that judgment directly to, the 15 year old young person, whose future he had to decide (and his father). Northamptonshire Council sought a care order for a...
by Sarah P | Oct 9, 2016 | Comment
This post represents opinion and comment from Sarah Phillimore and should thus not be take as representative of the views of all members of the Transparency Project – but she hopes it is. On September 6th 2016 four family lawyers complained to the Daily Mail...
by Paul M | Oct 7, 2016 | Cases, Explanation
Conducting your own case as a litigant in person (LiP) is hard enough as it is, without being given a massive bundle of the other side’s documents and law reports at the door of the court, just as the hearing is about to begin. Last week a judge in the High Court...
by reporting watch team | Oct 7, 2016 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
[Edit 17/10/16 : The Daily Mirror Various newspapers] this week reported a family case about adoption. We think they have got it rather wrong. The article is by Brian Farmer, and is titled “Grandparents win court fight to stop grandchild they didn’t know existed...
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