by Sophie Smith Holland | Jun 7, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation
This is a first post from Sophie Smith-Holland, one of our new contributors. Sophie tweets as @SSmithHolland. The post is divided into two parts. This is Part One. The question of how the Family Court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public...
by reporting watch team | Jun 1, 2019 | Analysis, FCReportingWatch
In the Victoria Derbyshire television programme on 16 May, Sir James Munby, the former President of the Family Division, acknowledged (via a written statement) the weight of expressions of dissatisfaction and concern that was building up about orders for contact...
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by Paul M | Jun 1, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
A typical plot development in old novels is the sudden discovery of unexpected wealth, usually in the form of an inheritance, or the discovery of a long lost will or hidden relationship to a wealthy benefactor. That is sometimes what it...
by Barbara Rich | May 20, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
At the beginning of April 2019, a Press Association report of an interim hearing at the Court of Protection provoked a number of newspaper headlines and outraged reactions, because it quoted a High Court judge, Mr Justice Hayden, as having spoken of a “fundamental...
by reporting watch team | Apr 30, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This post is about a High Court case called Re MFS (Appeal: Transfer of Primary Care) [2019] EWHC 768 (Fam), a judgment delivered in March by Mr Justice Williams. We wrote this post some weeks ago, but the judgment was removed from BAILII before we published, so we...
by Polly Morgan | Apr 11, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation
Giving hope to all concierges who date cosmetics heiresses,* The Times tells us that ‘Concierge who wed Avon heiress wins £1.3 million despite pre-nup deal’. Ipekçi v McConnell is a case between – yes, you’ve guessed it – a hotel concierge,...
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