by reporting watch team | Feb 25, 2018 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Proportionality and no order for costs in discharge order proceedings – Discharge order appeal The recent care case of M (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 240 (judgment: 20 February 2018) has achieved some notoriety because the mother, who won her appeal, still had to...
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by Paul M | Feb 25, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
“Secrecy in the court system is a growing concern. The press has a duty to uphold the principle of open justice and act as the eyes and ears of the public in the courts. The Times will resist any attempts to erode those principles.” So concludes a front page story in...
by reporting watch team | Feb 5, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
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 ITV This Morning and Daily Mail –...
by reporting watch team | Jan 30, 2018 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote back in January last year about a case where Mr Justice Peter Jackson (now in the Court of Appeal) had ruled against direct contact between children raised in an ultra-orthodox (Charedi) Jewish community and their transgender father, in essence because in...
by reporting watch team | Jan 27, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
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 Daily Mail – Polly Morgan...
by Polly Morgan | Jan 24, 2018 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
I’m sorry to report that today’s Daily Mail article ‘The tick box divorce: Couples will fill in new ten-page online form detailing money and assets they want under plans to streamline the system’ is (to use a technical legal term) totes nonsense. I exaggerate. The...
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