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...
by Polly Morgan | Jan 24, 2018 | Analysis, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There was an interesting article in The Times last week, ‘Is there such a thing as a good divorce? (paywall), written by Grania Langdon-Down. It was a bit of a hodge-podge of different concepts, but one bit I did find interesting was the suggestion that courts are...
by Lucy R | Jan 7, 2018 | Analysis, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Family Law publishes a regular blog series by The Transparency Project. This post originally appeared in August 2017 at [2017] Fam Law 908. It is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher. In the June issue of Family Law at [2017] Fam Law 693 we wrote...
by Sarah P | Jan 3, 2018 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
On December 21st 2017, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in CN v Poole Borough Council [2017] EWCA civ 2185. This judgment prompted a report in The Times on the 1st January 2018 with the headline ‘Abuse victims told they can’t sue council for...
by Polly Morgan | Dec 8, 2017 | Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
The Times and The Telegraph are reporting that new courts are being established to deal with the financial side of divorces for the wealthy. ‘Divorce courts for super-rich win cautious welcome from lawyers’ is The Times’ headline; The Telegraph has ‘New courts planned...
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