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No take-backs? The parents who changed their mind about adoption and the local authority who got it very, very wrong
Malvika Jaganmohan is a pupil barrister at Coram Chambers, a specialist family law chambers in London. She tweets as @MalvikaJaganmo1 All paragraph references in bold refer to the judgment which is publicly available on Bailii. Background The case of Foster...
‘The problems are huge’: teenagers in care living in caravan parks
HHJ Dancey explains at the outset of this case, Dorset Council v A (Residential Placement: Lack of Resources) [2019] EWFC 62 that he has spoken to A, aged 15, about his intention to 'tell her story' and that he is writing the judgment with her and her family reading...
Tafida Raqeeb Judgment Summary: Continuation of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Italy held to be in Child’s Best Interests
This is a guest post from Transparency Project member, Emma Nottingham and Peta Coulson-Smith (Paediatric Registrar, and Clinical Training Fellow & Senior Teaching Fellow in Clinical Ethics and Law at the University of Southampton). Peta tweets as @drpetacs. This...
The deprivation of liberty for 16 and 17 year olds
We are very pleased to bring this Guest Post very kindly written by Victoria Butler-Cole QC, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers. Victoria tweets at @TorButlerCole We have previously written a post here which gives a brief outline of this case. This post goes into further...
Transgender man must remain registered as child’s mother
In the case of TT, R (On the Application Of) v The Registrar General for England and Wales [2019] EWHC 2384 (Fam) (25 September 2019) the court was asked to determine the definition of ‘mother’ under the law in England and Wales. The individual in the case was...
BAILII and the re-use of judgments as public legal information
For all practical purposes, the free legal database run by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is an official source of judgments from senior courts that any member of the public or any journalist can use. But while anyone can read individual...
Off to IPSO we go…(hey ho)
On 27 August the Express published an article under their 'crusade' to 'End this injustice' (in family courts). We were concerned that it contained serious inaccuracies and was misleading. We wrote about that in a post on 30 August : The Danger of Crusades. On 1...
Can parents agree to a 16 year old being detained?
As a result of a new Supreme Court judgment, local authorities will no longer be able to offer residential care, with parents' agreement, to 16 and 17 year olds where they are supervised and not free to leave - unless there is a court order. This decision potentially...
Nothing else will do.
This is a post by Annie, one half of our Project Coordination team, author of Surviving Safeguarding; a parents’ guide to the child protection process and a birth parent who has been through several sets of concurrent public and private law proceedings. Annie now...
Doesn’t time fly . . .
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project's monthly column in the August 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 959. As we write this month's column we are awaiting news of whether the six month long legal blogging pilot that has been running...