by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
We’ve been waiting, hawk-like, since 2014 for the ‘next steps’ in transparency reform. And when it came we almost missed it, hidden like a tiny rodent camouflaged under a bush. The President’s View number 18 was published last week. It is all...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
On 20 January the Daily Mail headline demanded : ‘Family court judge must explain why pianist jailed, says campaigner’ The campaigner was ex-MP John Hemming. The piano man was, we thought, a father whose protests on social media we had seen before, and in...
by reporting watch team | Feb 1, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
On 10 January, the Daily Mail reported about the alarming case of a baby named Teddy, who was removed from his parents’ care when just six-weeks old, and remained away from them for five months while there was investigation into the causes of bruising on his...
by reporting watch team | Jan 30, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote back in January last year about a case where Mr Justice Peter Jackson (now in the Court of Appeal) had ruled against direct contact between children raised in an ultra-orthodox (Charedi) Jewish community and their transgender father, in essence because in...
by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This observation was made by HHJ Gareth Jones in Wrexham Family Court in March 2017, in a judgment Re E [2017] EWFC 101 published in January 2018. HHJ Jones is a transparency hero – he is the only judge in Wales whose judgments regularly appear on BAILII, in...
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