by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
We’ve been waiting, hawk-like, since 2014 for the ‘next steps’ in transparency reform. And when it came we almost missed it, hidden like a tiny rodent camouflaged under a bush. The President’s View number 18 was published last week. It is all...
by David Burrows | Feb 1, 2018 | Comment
Clarity: legal aid law and access to rights The legal aid scheme has a central irony. Lord Bingham’s first rule of his Rule of Law was that ‘The law must be accessible and so far as possible intelligible, clear and predictable’ (The Rule of Law Tom Bingham, 2010 at...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
On 20 January the Daily Mail headline demanded : ‘Family court judge must explain why pianist jailed, says campaigner’ The campaigner was ex-MP John Hemming. The piano man was, we thought, a father whose protests on social media we had seen before, and in...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On 10 January, the Daily Mail reported about the alarming case of a baby named Teddy, who was removed from his parents’ care when just six-weeks old, and remained away from them for five months while there was investigation into the causes of bruising on his...
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