by Emma Nottingham | May 10, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This case concerns an appeal by Alfred McConnell (previously anonymised as TT in the first instance decision). Mr McConnell was born female but around 10 years ago, at the age of 22, transitioned to become male, undergoing testosterone treatment and a double...
by Lucy R | May 7, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Following on from our Alphabet Soup post about Re A and Re B (and our earlier post about Re P), there are two new remote hearing related judgments out : A Local Authority v Mother & Ors [2020] EWHC 1086 (Fam) and Re Q [2020] EWHC 1109 (Fam). As with A and B,...
by Guest Post | May 4, 2020 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Trends
This is a guest post by Celia Kitzinger, co-director of the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre and Honorary Professor, Cardiff University School of Law and Politics. She tweets as @KitzingerCelia During the current public health emergency,...
by Lucy R | May 4, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Although the remote family justice soup has of late been a right old ‘pea souper’, with some difficult to digest lumps of guidance giving us all a tummy ache, some new letters have floated to the top of family justice broth this week. Re A and Re B are...
![P (A Child: Remote Hearing) (Rev 3) [2020] EWFC 32: When is remote justice not justice?](https://transparencyproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/PFD-Sir-Andrew-McFarlane-300x291-1.jpg)
by Jack Harrison | Apr 23, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Re P (A Child: Remote Hearing) (Rev 3) [2020] EWFC 32 is a decision of the President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice, Sir Andrew McFarlane, about whether or not a 15 day trial should go ahead remotely. The trial was set down within care proceedings...
by reporting watch team | Apr 13, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Welcome to this month’s Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS Many mainstream...
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