by Paul M | Feb 23, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We reported earlier on the High Court’s decision to allow a hospital to withdraw mechanical ventilation from a baby, who had been starved of oxygen during his birth and had been declared “brain-stem dead” by doctors. Now the Court of Appeal have given their...
by Paul M | Feb 2, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In a recent case the court had to consider whether to allow a hospital to withdraw mechanical ventilation from a baby, who had been starved of oxygen during his birth and had been declared brain-stem dead by doctors, despite the objections of the baby’s parents. Such...
by Paul M | Jan 9, 2020 | Comment, Transparency News
In 2017 a new list was created in the Queen’s Bench Division, to be known as the Media and Communications List, and Mr Justice Warby, a media law specialist, was put in charge of it. The list was designed to deal with the broader range of media-related claims than was...
by Paul M | Nov 23, 2019 | Comment, Events, FCReportingWatch
This blog post originally appeared as our monthly column for November 2019 in Family law at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1334. During the summer vacation, the Transparency Project took its message to the people. We organised two events at the Byline Festival in East...
by Paul M | Nov 7, 2019 | Comment
The Media Standards Trust has issued a highly critical follow-up report on its earlier assessment of the extent to which Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) system of press regulation satisfies the requirements of the Leveson Inquiry Report 2012. The new...
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