Coronation Street Child Abortion Storyline: What is the law?

by Emma Nottingham | Feb 25, 2019 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch

What is the law? Last week on Coronation Street, 14-year-old Amy Barlow had an abortion. In line with the current law in England and Wales, she was able to do so without her parents consent. The story caught media attention after twitter users appeared surprised by...

BC v BG – Challenging arbitration awards in divorce cases

by Paul M | Feb 19, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Divorcing couples who cannot agree how to divide their property can, as an alternative to costly and time consuming litigation, refer the matter to an arbitrator. But if one of them isn’t happy about the outcome, the matter could still end up in court. The recent case...

A mixed picture on complaints

by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

A little while ago, we wrote about some pretty poor lightweight reporting of a serious judgment. Initially, our attention was drawn to a terrible headline from Sky, but it soon became clear that most of the papers were writing in similar terms about the case –...

Was the risk really bad enough to justify the remedy?

by Julie Doughty | Jan 3, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This question was asked by Lord Justice Peter Jackson in a judgment reported last month,  Re F (A Child: Placement Order: Proportionality) [2018] EWCA Civ 2761 The risk here was of future significant harm and the remedy was a closed adoption.  However, this...

Born of Injustice – how it came to be written

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

This is a guest post by Keith Cooper, who is a senior staff writer for The Doctor magazine. Keith kindly agreed to write a post at our request when we saw his extraordinary writing about a family court case, and realised that a huge amount of work must have gone into...

Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup

by reporting watch team | Nov 10, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Guardian – We questioned Families...