Legal divorce and amicable ancillaries

by Polly Morgan | Jan 25, 2020 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Once, back when I was a full-time solicitor, I was telephoned for a divorce by a nice married couple. They were sitting at the kitchen table in one of their houses, having been separated for a number of years and each was happily living with a new partner. They were...

“No” means No. – JH v MF

by Guest Post | Jan 23, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

This is a guest post by Alexandra Wilson, barrister at 5 St Andrews Hill Chambers. Warning: Please note that quotations from this judgment contain some descriptions of sexual assault and rape. This case, JH v MF [2020] EWHC 86 (Fam) was an appeal from the Central...

One appeal, Two Bakers and Three tries at a fact finding

by Lucy R | Jan 15, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

In D (Fact-finding appeal) [2019] EWCA Civ 2302 (20 December 2019) Lord Justice Baker gives the lead judgment concerning an appeal from His Honour Judge Baker. The upshot is that, the question of the child’s injuries having been the subject of two attempts at...

Tafida Raqeeb: Costs Judgment

by Emma Nottingham | Jan 3, 2020 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

In 2019, we reported on the tragic case of Tafida Raqeeb. Raqeeb v Barts Health NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 2531 (Admin) and [2019] EWHC 2530 (Fam)). As a brief reminder, Tafida Raqeeb, now aged 5, experienced a catastrophic brain injury in February...

The Open Justice Principle – the clue is in the title…

by Lucy R | Dec 29, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

A little while ago we wrote about a case called Cape v Dring. It wasn’t a family case at all, in fact it was something to do with asbestos, and the reason we wrote about it was because it dealt with the principles that apply to applications for sight of...

Experience as a legal blogger at the Tafida Raqeeb Case

by Emma Nottingham | Dec 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious

This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column in Family Law for December 2019 at Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1476. Case background In September, I attended the hearing of the the Tafida Raqeeb case (Raqeeb (by her litigation...