by reporting watch team | May 26, 2026 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
An unusual appeal judgment was published earlier this month – a successful appeal by a Cafcass guardian against a court order that she arrange and supervise contact sessions between a child and the father. The judge had put the guardian in the position of being in...
by Paul M | May 22, 2026 | Cases, Trends
In what we think may be a first, the judgment in a recent fact-finding case was handed down with two additional versions, generated with artificial intelligence software, one in simplified language, the other in bullet points and emoji. These additional versions were...
by reporting watch team | May 17, 2026 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Open Reporting
The Good Law Project reported last month that Meta (the company that owns Instagram and Facebook) removed a post about their campaign supporting Liv Nervo – Liv Nervo told her story – but Meta took it down (8 April). The original proceedings were about contact...
by Julie Doughty | May 13, 2026 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This is my first case of legal blogging where I’ve heard anything about the child’s views being sought on my attendance and reporting of the proceedings. Last month, I went to a hearing in care proceedings at Gloucester Family Court (which takes the prize for having...
by reporting watch team | May 12, 2026 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
On 1st May, we wrote about a report in the local Dorset press that we said inaccurately described a judgment in Bournemouth Family Court as being an order for ‘no contact’ between a child and his mother. There have been a few developments since we sent our...
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