by Julie Doughty | Apr 12, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
An unusual case from the Court of Appeal was published on BAILII this week, LL v the Lord Chancellor [2017 EWCA Civ 237, in which a High Court judge was criticised for ‘gross and obvious irregularity’ in dealing with a father in a family hearing and, as a...
by reporting watch team | Apr 10, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We wrote about this case whilst Samantha Baldwin and her boys were still missing. Here : Police hunt for mother who has abducted her own children – what on earth is going on? At the time, we were hampered by a lack of information and restrictions on reporting some of...
by reporting watch team | Mar 25, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Actually, the first of those is a misnomer – as we explored in an earlier post the law on divorce in England & Wales requires behaviour (maybe unreasonable, maybe not) on the one part of a spouse that means it is unreasonable to now expect the other to...
by Lucy R | Mar 16, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
We wrote about Christopher Booker’s recent piece : In Britain’s secretive family courts, the lawyers always win, in a blog post : Just add this one to the pile… We’ve now followed this up with a complaint to The Telegraph via their complaints...
by reporting watch team | Mar 6, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
On 27 February 2017 The Telegraph reported on an ongoing appeal in the Court of Appeal by a wealthy wife (Mrs Sharp) in respect of the financial order made following her divorce. Millionaire wife challenges divorce settlement which gave ex-husband half of £5.45m...
by reporting watch team | Mar 5, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Update : the main judgment in the case of Norman has now been published. You can read it here : Norman v Norman [2017] EWCA Civ 120 (03 March 2017) We’ve previously written about this case when it was covered in the press, and when an earlier judgment was released in...
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