Can a love note prove your innocence?

by reporting watch team | May 6, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, Notorious

The Daily Mail report today that : Loving note tucked away in a photo album proved parents accused of almost killing their baby did NOT violently shake her This is about baby Effie, who spent several long months away from the care of her loving parents whilst concerns...

Risk assessment of contact after findings of domestic abuse

by reporting watch team | May 4, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

In MS v MN [2017] EWHC 324 (Fam) Mr Justice Moor allows a mother’s appeal against an order that there should be direct contact between the father and his children, where the court had made quite serious findings of domestic violence against him. The judge had...

Fact checking across the universe….

by reporting watch team | May 4, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, Notorious

As the song goes : Fact checking across the universe On the Starship Booker in search of the truth re Kirk Fact checking across the universe Only going forward to IPSO if he won’t amend his words Lt. Uhura, report. There’s Klingons on the starboard bow,...

The shaggy dog story continues…

by Lucy R | May 1, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

We’ve already written a really long blog post about our struggles to obtain some clarification about an item appearing in the mainstream media concerning children removed from grandparents by a judge who apparently failed to give reasons for her decision. You...

‘Couple awarded anonymity after breaching child contact order’

by reporting watch team | Apr 27, 2017 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This was the headline in The Brief (Times legal e-newsletter) today. It relates to this case : Middlesbrough Borough Council v M & Ors [2016] EWFC 71 (08 December 2016) Let’s be up front about this : the headline is plain rubbish. Now let’s explain...

Baby removed from parents over ‘abuse’ is found to have rare bruising condition

by reporting watch team | Apr 27, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

News reports are emerging today about a case of suspected non-accidental injury where the child was found to have a rare condition called Ehlers Danloss Syndrome (EDS) that could have accounted for the injuries. ITV report the case here : Baby removed from parents...