by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards. Jo is a partner and Head of Family at Forsters solicitors and former Chair of Resolution. She tweets as @MissJoEdwards. “Women are destroying marriage!” screamed a line that caught my eye on Twitter this week. As I...
by reporting watch team | Oct 17, 2017 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Sanchia Berg. Sanchia is a BBC Reporter and tweets as @sanchia7. “Go down and see what you can get” was the commission from the then Today Editor Ceri Thomas. It was April 27 2009, the first day English Family Courts were...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 16, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Last month, senior BuzzFeed reporter Emily Dugan spent three days at Birmingham’s central family and civil court, researching a fascinating and in-depth article that detailed the effects of legal aid cuts on people who can’t afford a lawyer and who therefore...
by reporting watch team | Oct 16, 2017 | FCReportingWatch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published Judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES Eastenders at the BBC –...
by Barbara Rich | Oct 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE 18 October – I’ve added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest...
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