by Sophie Smith Holland | Nov 28, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a post from Sophie Smith-Holland, who tweets as @SSmithHolland. The question of how the family court deals with domestic abuse has had a huge amount of public and media attention recently. Concerns have been raised that the system is placing children...
by Lucy R | Nov 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as the Transparency Project’s monthly column for October 2019 in Family Law [2019] Fam Law 1208(1). Cape v Dring In July 2019, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring...
by reporting watch team | Oct 23, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Project
This blog post originally appeared as our monthly column in the September 2019 issue of Family Law at [2019] Fam Law 1074(1). New writers join the project team In this month’s column, we feature some contributions by writers who have recently become involved in...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 20, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
TP and TS [2019] EWHC B51 concerns baby twins who had been born prematurely at 31 weeks and who subsequently experienced serious physical trauma that may have been attributable to their parents. The good news is that the court has arrived at a conclusion that the...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 11, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
HHJ Dancey explains at the outset of this case, Dorset Council v A (Residential Placement: Lack of Resources) [2019] EWFC 62 that he has spoken to A, aged 15, about his intention to ‘tell her story’ and that he is writing the judgment with her and her...
by Emma Nottingham | Oct 7, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
This is a guest post from Transparency Project member, Emma Nottingham and Peta Coulson-Smith (Paediatric Registrar, and Clinical Training Fellow & Senior Teaching Fellow in Clinical Ethics and Law at the University of Southampton). Peta tweets as @drpetacs. This...
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