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‘Sensationalist’ ‘provocative’ and ‘unhelpful’ – why I was prepared to say in a national newspaper that our state kidnaps children

by Louise Tickle | Feb 12, 2019 | Cases, Comment

This blog post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 1375. ‘Abduction: (legal use) The illegal removal of a child from its parents or guardians.’ ‘Kidnap: Abduct (someone) and hold them captive, typically to obtain a...
I’d have written that article too

I’d have written that article too

by Louise Tickle | Nov 28, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a blog post by Louise Tickle, journalist member of The Transparency Project. It relates to yesterday’s Times article by Andrew Norfolk and the blog post from our chair Lucy Reed that we published yesterday in response, and in which we indicated that we...

When a journalist comes to court – lower those hackles

by Louise Tickle | Oct 12, 2018 | Comment

This blog post originally appeared in the August 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 957. Criminal courts are open to all, and lawyers barely bother to glance up when a reporter shuffles into the press bench. Decide to drop by a family court, though – which in almost all...
A grandmother who wanted to complain, and a local authority that argued it shouldn’t be named

A grandmother who wanted to complain, and a local authority that argued it shouldn’t be named

by Louise Tickle | Nov 10, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

Louise Tickle (award winning journalist and Transparency Project member) on applying to report the grandmother’s experience from ABC (A child) Re [2017]  B75 (30 October 2017) and to name the council concerned. (Her original news piece commissioned by the...
Knocking at the door to the family courts: two journalists’ experiences, two years apart

Knocking at the door to the family courts: two journalists’ experiences, two years apart

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...
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