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The court’s role in sanctioning medical treatment and the withdrawal of medical treatment of children: “Parental autonomy and a child’s best interests: Should the courts have the final say?”
This was the vexed question posed at the 11th Family Justice Council Annual Debate last night. (The discussion was chaired by the Right Honourable Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division of the High Court and Chairman of the Family Justice Council). Anyone...
Elsie Scully-Hicks – Family Court Judgment Released
Mr Justice Moor has today published his judgment about the death of Elsie (known to her biological family as Shayla). You can read the judgment here: The County Council of the City and County of Cardiff -v- Matthew Scully-Hicks and Others. The judgment was written in...
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 Guardian - Reported new draft guidelines...
Transparency Project News: Legal bloggers – a level playing field?
In August THAT Muslim foster carer story hit the press ('Christian child forced into foster care', The Times, 28 August 2017). The Times journalist Andrew Norfolk, lauded for his expose of the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal, was the subject of trenchant...
Breaking the cycle of mistrust – sometimes less is not more
Joanna Nicolas wrote recently that Details of care cases are concealed for good reason. The press must respect that (The Guardian, 1 Nov 2017). In her article she said that I believe few journalists write about children’s social care with integrity; few are interested...
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 Times - Tower Hamlets published an...
Why did Gloucestershire seek anonymity?
We've recently covered a case where a grandmother was permitted by a family court judge to tell of her experience in trying to secure the care of her baby granddaughter from Gloucestershire Council. After conceding that the grandmother ought to be able to tell her...
A grandmother who wanted to complain, and a local authority that argued it shouldn’t be named
Louise Tickle (award winning journalist and Transparency Project member) on applying to report the grandmother's experience from ABC (A child) Re [2017] B75 (30 October 2017) and to name the council concerned. (Her original news piece commissioned by the Guardian...
Online divorces – click here to end the marriage?
The Daily Mail have reported on a pilot project in which people start divorce proceedings by completing an online form. The project, which is running in Nottingham, has apparently had really positive results. The current method for starting a divorce is to post the...
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 Express - On Monday the Express ran this...