by reporting watch team | Apr 17, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Christopher Booker is “puzzled” by our “child protection” system, and in particular some things about the Samantha Baldwin case (see : Why are the police so happy to “hunt” innocent parents? in today’s Sunday Telegraph, not...
by reporting watch team | Apr 14, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The case of Work v Gray has been in the news this week, as the Court of Appeal dealt with Mr Work’s attempt to overturn a decision that his wife should get a half share of their fortune. We wrote about it in January here : A genius from another planet? This post...
by reporting watch team | Apr 12, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Re W is a very long judgment. Re W (A Child) [2017] EWHC 829 (Fam) (06 March 2017) This post is but an outline of it and does not cover the details in full. It is heartbreaking to read, and will have been heartbreaking for W’s parents to hear when delivered last...
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...
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