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Family Law Conference
The Manchester Centre for Law in Society and the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre are holding a Family Law Conference on 4 March 2017 (10am - 4pm). Speakers : Rebecca Probert, Warwick University ‘The women who did: feminism, free love & freedom’ Marilyn...
Balancing carrots and sticks
Since we launched our Family Court Reporting Watch we've been trying to work out the best way to achieve the desired results - better reporting of family law and cases in the family courts. It's been a bit of a learning curve and we're continually adjusting our...
Press regulation: what are we waiting for now?
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport is currently running a consultation on the future of press regulation. But how genuine is the consultation? Will they really take any notice of the responses, or is it just an opportunity for the powerful mainstream media to...
Re W (Adoption: Contact) and the importance of basic steps to trace wider family in the early stages, for a childs chances of growing up within her birth family
Re W (Adoption: Contact) [2016] EWHC 3118 (Fam) is a family court decision by Cobb J in the High Court. The judgment explaining this decision has just been published. The case This was the re hearing of a decision about whether a (by then) 2 and a half year old girl...
Why the Court of Appeal released a grandmother imprisoned for disobeying orders of the Court of Protection
Some time ago we wrote about the case of Mrs Kirk, a woman imprisoned for breaking orders made in the Court of Protection. She had taken an elderly and incapacitated man "M" to a care home in Portugal and refused to bring him back when ordered (or more specifically...
Court of Protection – Paul Briggs case on withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment
This week the Court of Protection, sitting in Manchester, has been hearing a case about a policeman, Paul Briggs, whose wife, Lindsey Briggs has applied to the court for withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment (the feeding tube) that she no longer believes is in her...
Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up
Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases; Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family court cases; Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES The Guardian...
Adoption: “Nothing else will do” and the impact of decisions much earlier in the child protection process about mental health assessments and provision of therapy
Gloucestershire County Council v M & Ors is a recently published case where a family court judge at circuit judge level applied routine, established law to the particular circumstances of a 9 month old baby boy and his vulnerable young mother. Through no fault of...
England’s Stolen Children? Plus ca change, plus c’est le meme chose
On November 15th 2016 a documentary aired on French television called 'England's Stolen Children'. 'Researching Reform' provided comment and a useful translation of the explanation of the programme's contents. If your French is good enough, you can watch the...
Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up
Correcting, clarifying and commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining and commenting on published Judgments of family cases Other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES The Daily Telegraph...