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Cafcass, parental alienation and the law
This front page headline in The Guardian grabbed attention on 17 November 2017 : ‘Divorcing parents could lose children if they try to turn them against partner. Measures being trialled to prevent “parental alienation” feature penalties including permanent loss of...
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 The Daily Mail/Mail Online, the Sun and...
5 family law myths in the media
This is a guest post by Byron James, Barrister, Expatriate Law. He tweets as @byron_barrister. Some quarters of the press have behaved so badly recently that passengers are no longer able to buy their wares on Virgin West Coast trains. Unfortunately, the rest of us...
Privacy, the common law and a celebrity divorce
Under the headline ‘Jamie and Louise Redknapp’s divorce papers to be kept secret as a judge blocks the release of documents’ the Transparency Project reported last week-end that the Press were complaining a London court had ‘blocked the release of papers that would...
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 The Sun (followed by the Mail) - In...
Reporting Watch Update
Family Law publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in August 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 908. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher. In the June issue of Family Law at [2017] Fam Law 693 we wrote...
“Divorce Day”? Don’t believe the hype…
This is a guest post by Jo Edwards, who tweets as @MissJoEdwards. Like other fixtures in our diaries at this time of year - Boxing Day sales, gym and diet adverts starting just after Christmas, travel companies enticing us in the depths of winter with promises of...
A fork in the road – Cafcass and their pathways
A little while ago we wrote some about Cafcass' new proposed High Conflict pathway, which had been hailed in the press as a big thing in terms of dealing effectively with parental alienation. We had been offered an interview with the Cafcass Principal Social Worker,...
Celebrities are given a smidgen of privacy at a difficult time in their lives shocker
The Sun are very very cross. Why is that? Well.... Here's the headline : REDKNAPP DIVORCE SECRET Jamie and Louise Redknapp’s divorce papers to be kept secret as a judge blocks the release of documents District Judge Ian Paul Mulkis blocked the release of papers that...
Transparency Project News: The President’s Guidance – three years later
'Family Law' publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in July 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 778. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher. It is now nearly 3 years since Sir James Munby, President of the...