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Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

by Barbara Rich | Feb 20, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

On 14 February 2017, the Daily Mail reported on developments in a Court of Protection case that it has been following for some time: “an astonishing story that has come to represent all that is wrong with Britain’s shadowy Court of Protection.”  The story is that of...
Brewster : “Shifting (or not) the Supreme Court’s view on marriage”

Brewster : “Shifting (or not) the Supreme Court’s view on marriage”

by Barbara Rich | Feb 14, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The judgment : In the Matter of an Application by Denise Brewster for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2017] UKSC 8    The history It’s impossible not to feel sympathy for Denise Brewster’s shattering transition from celebrating her engagement to mourning her...
Mrs Norman – the wife who lost her “cloak of anonymity”

Mrs Norman – the wife who lost her “cloak of anonymity”

by reporting watch team | Feb 11, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch

We wrote in January about a case reported as a wife losing her fight to keep divorce hearings secret. The wife in question was Mrs Norman. You can read our original post here. At the time the judgment explaining the Court of Appeal’s reasons had not been...
Re X – a trade off between privacy and anonymity?

Re X – a trade off between privacy and anonymity?

by reporting watch team | Feb 5, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Trends

Two judgments have recently been published by Mr Justice Bodey in a financial remedy case. The case is interesting in terms of the law around financial remedies, and from a transparency perspective. You can read the main decision on BAILII here : X v X (application...
Transgender v ultra-Orthodox Jewish community?

Transgender v ultra-Orthodox Jewish community?

by reporting watch team | Jan 31, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

The press widely report the decision of Mr Justice Peter Jackson in a very sad and difficult case involving an ultra-orthodox Jewish (Charedi) family, where the father left the community to become a transgender woman, and has not seen her five children since. Mr...

From one extreme to another: media reports on the role of social workers in the death of Poppy Widdison

by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch

Poppy died 3 years ago, aged just 4, at the hands of her mother and partner who were long standing addicts. She had head injuries, bruising and had ingested drugs including heroin, methadone and ketamine in the 6 months before her death. According to recent reports...
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