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Inaugural Legal Blogging Day

Inaugural Legal Blogging Day

by Lucy R | Oct 2, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

Yesterday, 1 October, was the first day of the new legal bloggers pilot. Having spent many hours persuading the powers that be that this was a good idea to try out, it seemed like the done thing to be there on Day One. So, shortly before 10am I trotted from Chambers...
14-year-old instructs his own solicitor in care proceedings

14-year-old instructs his own solicitor in care proceedings

by reporting watch team | Sep 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Times published a story on 13 September under the headline, ‘Judge lets 14-year-old boy choose his own lawyer’. The judgment is on BAILII here – Re Z (A Child: Care Proceedings: Separate Representation)  [2018] EWFC B57. We don’t know why the Times has not...
Plenty of fish, too little caviar

Plenty of fish, too little caviar

by Barbara Rich | Aug 21, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Burki v. Seventy Thirty Ltd, Seventy Thirty Ltd v. Burki [2018] EWHC 2151 (QB) A recent High Court judgment offers a vivid glimpse into the real-life world of “Wry Society”, a regular feature in the Financial Times How to Spend Itmagazine, which holds a mirror up to...
Leaving the country to evade care proceedings – how does the court in England & Wales get your children back?

Leaving the country to evade care proceedings – how does the court in England & Wales get your children back?

by reporting watch team | Aug 14, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Hampshire County Council v C.E. and N.E. (Urgent preliminary ruling procedure – Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matters of parental responsibility – Opinion) [2018] EUECJ C-325/18PPU_O (07 August 2018)   Introduction The following...
‘Habitual Residence’ – sloppy explanations of the law about child abduction

‘Habitual Residence’ – sloppy explanations of the law about child abduction

by reporting watch team | Aug 9, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

We have been alerted to some less than perfect summaries of the law around international child abduction by the BBC recently. When a child is abducted to a foreign country away from their other parent, two things are a given: emotions will be running high and the law...
Void, Valid and Very Confusing – what is the status of Sharia Marriages in the UK?

Void, Valid and Very Confusing – what is the status of Sharia Marriages in the UK?

by reporting watch team | Aug 3, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The High Court here in London has recently considered the status of an islamic marriage, that did not comply with all the usual formalities required in England & Wales. It has generated a lot of confused and confusing headlines – the marriage has been...
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