by reporting watch team | Aug 30, 2026 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Can a father against whom findings of domestic abuse have been made by a family court plead ‘Not Guilty’ to those offences in the criminal court? Yes, if he denies the charges and rejects the family court findings. The standard of proof in the criminal...
by reporting watch team | Aug 23, 2026 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
The recently published judgment in Kent County Council v M & Ors [2026] EWFC 212 (B) is very critical of a parent and baby residential assessment business, named as Savannah Lodge, and also critical of a paediatrician, who is named only as “Dr G”. In her judgment,...
by reporting watch team | Mar 24, 2026 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
[For further developments, see: Censorship by Meta? Update on Pringle v Nervo, 17 May 2026.] This story by the Good Law Project on 19 March – Liv Nervo: Court calls Pringle’s ‘shameful’ conduct ‘abuse’- is about a mother who wanted to publicise her family court...
by reporting watch team | Mar 18, 2026 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
A family court case has hit the headlines over the past year, not so much for anything remarkable about the Family Law Act 1996 dispute in front of the judges, but because the husband (according to press reports) is friendly with prominent right wing politicians and...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 20, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
A 13 year old boy was refusing to obey High Court orders that he spend time with his mother following his parents’ separation. After three years of failed attempts to persuade him to see her, the court asked the Tipstaff’s office to enforce an order that he be...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | Apr 12, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation
An appeal judgment has just landed in our inboxes on the correct approach to the use of intermediaries in care proceedings: Re M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440. We wrote a post a couple of weeks ago when we became aware that this appeal was in the...
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