by reporting watch team | Aug 24, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Earlier this week, the Daily Mail published a story with the headline above, written by Michelle Goodman, a mother who had been in dispute with her child’s father about contact arrangements. (Michelle Goodman is not the author’s real name). We quickly recognised...
by reporting watch team | Aug 12, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In June this year, the Court of Appeal heard an application by a mother that the court use its powers under the inherent jurisdiction to set aside adoption orders made in April 2020, in respect of three children. The judgment in this case has now been published as Re...
by reporting watch team | Aug 6, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is post by Elizabeth Wark. Elizabeth is a barrister at Three Doctor Johnson’s Buildings specialising in civil and family law. She tweets as @ElizabethWark7 The Covid pandemic has profoundly affected lives and livelihoods. This blog explains a family court...
by reporting watch team | Jul 27, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
In 2017 we asked the Family Procedure Rule Committee to consider temporarily amending the Family Procedure Rules by way of a temporary pilot scheme to test out allowing ‘legal bloggers’ into family court hearings, alongside journalists (they have been...
by reporting watch team | Jul 26, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
There is a lot of twitter comment about last week’s Dispatches programme (for those who didn’t catch the show it can be viewed here). We have published two posts from members of TP setting out their personal views (here and here), but we thought we’d...
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