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Charlie Gard Update
We last wrote about the case of Charlie Gard when the European Court was still considering Charlie's parents' application. Since then the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have rejected the application as inadmissible (decision here), meaning that the parents...
The limits of the court’s influence over adult disputes about children
The judgment in the case of T v S (Wardship) [2011] was handed down on 27th May 2011 but only recently appeared on the BAILII Twitter feed. I was interested, not only because it is a judgment of Hedley J - a reliably intelligent and compassionate Judge - but because...
An Example Of A McKenzie Friend Who Didn’t Help Anyone
In the judgment from a case called H (Children : exclusion of Mckenzie friend) [2017] EWFC B31 (05 March 2017), Her Honour Judge Atkinson sets out in detail, why permission to appeal an order banning a paid McKenzie friend from "helping" a mother involved in a dispute...
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 COURTS CASES Corrections of inaccurate,...
Grandparents must NEVER be told their daughter had twins
The Daily Mail reported on 20 June that a judge had ruled that “Grandparents must NEVER be told their daughter had twins…as mother plans to give babies away”. A number of people tweeted to ask what judgment this related to and we recognized it instantly as one that we...
Can you lose your kids for rejecting an offer of distant accommodation?
A blog post published yesterday on Skwawkbox suggests that : #GRENFELL RESIDENTS MAY LOSE CUSTODY OF CHILDREN IF REJECT DISTANT ACCOMMODATION We thought that this was likely to really worry not just families from Grenfell but also families elsewhere. Can you lose your...
Charlie Gard – the case for interim measures to preserve life
(The outcome of the Supreme Court permission to appeal hearing is here. The Supreme Court announcement of a further procedural hearing today is here. Other posts on our blog about this case can be found here STOP PRESS: This evening's ECHR press release is...
Correction Requests Update
We recently made a further complaint to The Telegraph about Christopher Booker's coverage of the case of Re H (A Child) (Interim Care Order : fact finding) [2017] EWHC 518 (Fam) on 21 May (you can read the post about that complaint here). We have now heard back from...
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 COURTS CASES Inaccurate, misleading or...
Parental Alienation – an alien concept?
This post is about a case called : B (A 14 Year Old Boy), Re [2017] EWFC B28 (11 May 2017), a decision of His Honour Judge Simon Wood recently published. It is a very sad case. B has not seen his father since 2011, and the case revolved around what further steps could...