by Sophie Smith Holland | Aug 6, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. With thanks to Alice Twaite. The question of how the Family Court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the...
by Barbara Rich | Jul 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This post originally appeared on Medium and is republished with thanks. It deals with the recent judgment of the Court of Protection in London Borough of Tower Hamlets v NB (consent to sex) [2019] EWCOP 27 and the consequences of sensational commentary on it. The...
by Lucy R | Jul 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the June 2019 issue of Family Law [2019] Fam Law 694. As we write this column just after Easter we are peering through the window to things happening over in the civil jurisdiction whilst waiting for the President of...
by Sophie Smith Holland | Jul 21, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. The question of how the family court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the system is placing children and...
by Sophie Smith Holland | Jul 11, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. The question of how the Family Court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the system is placing children and...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | Jul 6, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
On the 17th of June 2018, a father made an anxious call to Kent Police after his ex-partner failed to return their child after a period of unsupervised contact which had been agreed by the family court. Very sadly, the following morning, the Police found the bodies of...
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