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The terrifying tale of how Britain’s most secret court imprisoned a grandmother (AKA Court enforces its own orders and publishes judgment for the world to see)

by reporting watch team | Oct 21, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This week Christopher Booker, chose this as his topic for his Sunday Telegraph column :   The terrifying tale of how Britain’s most secret court imprisoned a grandmother   This is of course a very worrying headline. The article itself is also likely to...

Advertising children for adoptive parents in the national press

by reporting watch team | Oct 20, 2016 | FCReportingWatch

There have been four adverts for adoptive parents for children in the Mirror this week with another due tomorrow for  ‘National Adoption Week’. They are here: ‘Will you be my forever parents?’ Heartbreaking story of boy who wants to be adopted’;...

Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round-Up

by reporting watch team | Oct 15, 2016 | FCReportingWatch

Correcting and clarifying media reports of family cases; Explaining or commenting on published Judgments of family cases; Other transparency news   MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES: Re W – The Wrong End of the Stick (blog here)   PUBLISHED FAMILY COURT...

“You and Your Father”: Judge writes TO a young person in a judgment

by reporting watch team | Oct 12, 2016 | FCReportingWatch

Mr Justice Keehan has taken the unusual step, not just of creating a short extra judgment for, but also writing that judgment directly to, the 15 year old young person, whose future he had to decide (and his father). Northamptonshire Council sought a care order for a...

Re W – The Wrong end of the stick?

by reporting watch team | Oct 7, 2016 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

[Edit 17/10/16 : The Daily Mirror Various newspapers] this week reported a family case about adoption. We think they have got it rather wrong. The article is by Brian Farmer, and is titled “Grandparents win court fight to stop grandchild they didn’t know existed...
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