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Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES BBC News and the Telegraph - We commented on...
Press reporting on Family Courts
Family Law publishes a regular column by The Transparency Project. This blog post originally appeared in the June 2018 issue, [2018] Fam Law 750. In this month's column, we consider some issues about newspaper coverage of family courts and the wider context of court...
Are ‘Thousands misusing abuse orders to get legal aid?’
Twitter commentators asked questions last week of a BBC headline: Thousands misusing abuse orders to get legal aid, says parenting charity And the 'click-bait' opening sentence of the story itself: Families Need Fathers says parents are being encouraged by some...
Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES Sky and BBC News - Wrongly suggested that...
About that civil partnership case ….
There’s been a great deal of misunderstanding and misreporting around Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment about civil partnerships*. Civil partnership was introduced by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and is presently open to same-sex couples only. It was therefore a...
The new ‘normal’
Families Need Fathers have issued a press release, welcoming ideas put forward by Sir Andrew McFarlane, the incoming President of the Family Division, in a keynote address at their conference on the theme of restoring confidence in family justice, held on 23 June. The...
How effective is press regulation when it comes to accuracy?
We recently complained to The Daily Mail about an inaccurate article compounded by a particularly misleading headline which extracted a minor fact from a judgment that had potential to make an attention grabbing headline, and made it sound as if it was what the case...
Bob the builder – Mail : No we won’t!
We wrote recently about an article and headline in The Daily Mail that we thought was misleading. The article headlined a social worker's criticism of a mother for leaving her child on a Bob The Builder toy car when he was too little for it - and overall the article...
Could you support The Transparency Project?
The Transparency Project has been running since 2014. We think we've done some pretty good work since we first launched, and we've been greatly assisted in that by grant funding from the Legal Education Foundation. Although we run primarily as a volunteer organisation...
Family Court Reporting Watch
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Mirror - Reported with Boy, 8, taken off...