by Julie Doughty | Apr 11, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation
This is a guest post by Rebecca Carr-Hopkins and Tracy Rydin-Orwin (ICI trainers) and Andrea Landini (Director, Family ReIations Institute). They are responding to our post on the case of Re C [2018] EWFC B9, where a psychologist’s evidence was based on a...
by reporting watch team | Mar 31, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This week, the Judicial Reviews of the Parole Board’s decision to release serial sex offender John Worboys were successful. Apart from quashing the decision and sending it back to be reconsidered on better evidence, the High Court also struck down that bit of...
by Sarah P | Mar 28, 2018 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
C (interim judgment on expert evidence) [2018] EWFC B9 (24 January 2018) This is an ‘ordinary’ family judgment but noteworthy because it shows: The considerable dangers of expert evidence which is not based on clear facts or reliable clinical practice; How...
by Paul M | Mar 26, 2018 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation
The alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy now living in England, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury earlier this month has been prominently reported in the news. Investigations into the nature of the military-grade nerve agent allegedly used on...
by reporting watch team | Mar 22, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In a judgment published on the BAILII website this week, a High Court Judge, Mr Justice MacDonald has criticized barristers involved in a case concerning the contact a 13 year old girl should have with her father, for the way they constantly interrupted one...
by David Burrows | Mar 1, 2018 | Explanation, Transparency News
AKA When is a single Family Court not a unified Family Court? This post is an attempt to explain a rather technical piece of guidance that was issued yesterday. It has been tricky trying to make it easy to get your head around, but we’ve done our best. Here goes… In...
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