by Guest Post | Mar 1, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Iain Large. Iain is a practising barrister and a member of St John’s Chambers in Bristol. He is a specialist in both public law children proceedings and private law disputes involving children, financial and property matters. He tweets as...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 5, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This judgment, Re R-E (Contact: Support from local authorities in Wales) [2021] EWFC B95 from Pontypridd Family Court, published on BAILII a few days ago, has a number of unusual features. One is the outcome, that direct contact was found not to be in the...
by Judith Townend | Jan 7, 2022 | Analysis, Explanation, Transparency News
What’s the collective noun for browser tabs? I ended my year with a lot – a flock? A bevy? – open, mainly relating to one of my main preoccupations, justice system data (i.e. information generated by the process of justice). I’m somewhat nervously returning to them...
by Lucy R | Dec 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This post originally appeared on the author’s blog Pink Tape and is reposted here with permission (NB, disclosure : the author is the Chair of The Transparency Project). Most of the newspapers carried the story on Saturday: ‘Andrew Griffiths found to have...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 7, 2021 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
I’m on holiday in Greece when I hear about a case involving a mother who has taken her children some 10 hours travel-time from the family home, without their father’s knowledge or consent. It’s a case that involves allegations of domestic abuse, a father who admits he...
by Lucy R | Oct 7, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We’ve spotted an interesting decision from last month where a High Court Judge has published a judgment in connection with a jurisdictional dispute arising from a husband’s nullity petition, along with the names of both parties. The husband contended the...
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