by Abigail Bond | May 24, 2019 | Cases, Explanation
This is a first post from Abigail Bond, one of our new contributors. Abigail tweets as @AbigailBond1. In May this year Mr Justice Francis handed down a carefully anonymised judgment in a case concerning PBM, a man in his mid-twenties who had an acquired brain injury...
by Guest Post | May 9, 2019 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Alex Chandler. Alex is a barrister specialising in financial remedy claims on divorce. He practises at 1 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, and also sits as a part-time judge, arbitrator and private FDR judge. His reported cases include a recent...
by reporting watch team | May 7, 2019 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post from Valerie Eliot Smith. Valerie is a non-practising barrister and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She has lived with the illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1981. When health...
by reporting watch team | Apr 30, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This post is about a High Court case called Re MFS (Appeal: Transfer of Primary Care) [2019] EWHC 768 (Fam), a judgment delivered in March by Mr Justice Williams. We wrote this post some weeks ago, but the judgment was removed from BAILII before we published, so we...
by Lucy R | Apr 17, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious
Since yesterday the news has been full of reports about a Ukrainian ‘Billionaire, Sergiy Tigipko, investigated over abduction of [his] UK grandchildren’ (See the BBC. Also, for example, Businessman reveals fight to bring daughters back to UK after ex-wife...
by Polly Morgan | Apr 11, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation
Giving hope to all concierges who date cosmetics heiresses,* The Times tells us that ‘Concierge who wed Avon heiress wins £1.3 million despite pre-nup deal’. Ipekçi v McConnell is a case between – yes, you’ve guessed it – a hotel concierge,...
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