by Julie Doughty | Jun 24, 2026 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Last month I attended an online hearing in Slough Family Court where the issue for the judge was whether the English court still had jurisdiction regarding a mother’s application, or whether family court proceedings should instead take place in Poland, where her son...
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 Julie Doughty | May 1, 2026 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Supreme Court judgment in Re X and Y (Children: Adoption Order: Setting Aside) [2026] UKSC 13 was published on 22 April. We had watched the hearing and we wrote about it in this post on 20 February – Undoing an adoption order: an update. We don’t have...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 27, 2026 | Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
Earlier this week, the Court of Appeal heard an argument that the Open Justice Principle does not apply to the Court of Protection (CoP) and that an ‘urban myth’ had wrongly grown that any attempt to restrict public access to CoP proceedings was ‘a...
by Julie Doughty | Jan 26, 2026 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
‘Tomas’ is a two year old boy who was removed from his parents to live in foster care under an interim care order in January 2025. (None of the parties’ real names are used in this post.) In a three-day final hearing in November, care and placement for adoption orders...
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