by Polly Morgan | Jan 24, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
I’m sorry to report that today’s Daily Mail article ‘The tick box divorce: Couples will fill in new ten-page online form detailing money and assets they want under plans to streamline the system’ is (to use a technical legal term) totes nonsense. I exaggerate. The...
by Polly Morgan | Jan 24, 2018 | Analysis, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There was an interesting article in The Times last week, ‘Is there such a thing as a good divorce? (paywall), written by Grania Langdon-Down. It was a bit of a hodge-podge of different concepts, but one bit I did find interesting was the suggestion that courts are...
by Polly Morgan | Dec 8, 2017 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Times and The Telegraph are reporting that new courts are being established to deal with the financial side of divorces for the wealthy. ‘Divorce courts for super-rich win cautious welcome from lawyers’ is The Times’ headline; The Telegraph has ‘New courts planned...
by Polly Morgan | Nov 2, 2017 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Daily Mail have reported on a pilot project in which people start divorce proceedings by completing an online form. The project, which is running in Nottingham, has apparently had really positive results. The current method for starting a divorce is to post the...
by Polly Morgan | Sep 12, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There have been a few articles in the newspapers about the latest judgment in Hart v Hart, a long-running case about the financial outcome of Mr and Mrs Hart’s divorce proceedings. Elsewhere on the Transparency Project, Mena Ruparel has criticised the inaccuracy of...
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