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,...
by Guest Post | Apr 5, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment
This is a guest post by Tom Wright, an associate tutor and PhD candidate in Media Law at University of East Anglia. This post first appeared on Tom’s blog, and we are grateful to him for permission to republish it here. This Supreme Court judgment is on a defamation...
by Paul M | Mar 30, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This case concerned the question whether, on an appeal, a child was entitled to choose and be represented by a solicitor of her own choice, instead of the solicitor already instructed by the court-appointed guardian. At the time of the appeal the child was almost 13...
by reporting watch team | Mar 9, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from Keri Tayler. Keri is a barrister specialising in Court of Protection work. She tweets as @keri_tayler. Two recent judgments in the Court of Protection sparked the usual inaccurate headlines suggesting that the court had ridden roughshod over...
by Paul M | Feb 19, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Divorcing couples who cannot agree how to divide their property can, as an alternative to costly and time consuming litigation, refer the matter to an arbitrator. But if one of them isn’t happy about the outcome, the matter could still end up in court. The recent case...
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