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Mums on the run
On the 4th of April, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour dedicated much of their podcast to the issue of repeat removals of children into the care system. As a mum who had my own baby taken at birth, after a previous set of public law proceedings in respect of my elder...
Discover Leveson: new online resource offers researchers convenient access to historic inquiry evidence
A comprehensive and interactive online research resource, containing all the evidence and publications of the Leveson Inquiry into press misconduct (2011-12) has been developed and hosted by Kingston University under the leadership of its Professor of Journalism,...
Does a man have a right to sex with his wife?
There has been a lot of coverage of remarks apparently made by Mr Justice Hayden this week about the 'fundamental human right' of a man to have sex with his wife. We think that the press coverage and twitter interest emanate from a Press Association (PA) newswire...
Stocker v Stocker: Facebook Libel and Dictionary Deficiencies
This is a guest post by Tom Wright, an associate tutor and PhD candidate in Media Law at University of East Anglia. This post first appeared on Tom’s blog, and we are grateful to him for permission to republish it here. This Supreme Court judgment is on a defamation...
Byline Times revisits an old chestnut
We were interested to see the launch of the Byline Times in March. Byline Times does not intend to report the daily news cycle. That’s for others. Our aim is to concentrate on ‘what the papers don’t say’. The heart of our paper will be investigations. We...
Drive-thru Divorce comes to the UK
Most of us will have heard of the Las Vegas style drive-thru wedding. Now an English law firm is offering clients a drive-thru divorce, among its other more conventional legal services. The Croydon law firm may be the first of its kind in Europe. Having moved...
Family Court Reporting Watch Round Up
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court casesExplaining or commenting on published judgments of family court casesHighlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Mail on Sunday - Reported a mother's...
Legal Blogging Pilot – some comparisons with the Court of Protection transparency pilot
Although I’ve not practised for decades, I’ve spent a lot of time in court. I’ve been a legal journalist and law reporter for most of my working life, so I’m familiar with the courts and their procedures. But it is only since being a member of the Transparency Project...
CS v SBH: a child’s competence to appoint her own lawyer
This case concerned the question whether, on an appeal, a child was entitled to choose and be represented by a solicitor of her own choice, instead of the solicitor already instructed by the court-appointed guardian. At the time of the appeal the child was almost 13...
How far should family law reflect modern family life? The case of cohabitation, equal civil partnerships and the common law marriage myth
This is a Guest Post by Anne Barlow FAcSS; Professor of Family Law and Policy and Associate Dean for Research, College of Social Sciences & International Studies at the University of Exeter. This was originally posted in the ESRC Society Now magazine as a feature...