Transparency: the Perfect Storm

by Sarah P | Oct 23, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The recent decisions of Hayden J concerning a 7 year old boy, whose mother insisted he wished to be raised as a girl, set out a wide variety of the issues that concern the Transparency Project and which have provoked strong emotion for many readers. a complicated set...

If your ex takes your child to the other end of the country should the court treat it as abduction?

by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

The Court of Appeal has clarified the question of how courts should deal with cases where one parent takes a child to live in a distant part of the country without the agreement of the other. The case is Re R (Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1016 (20 October 2016) and the full...

The terrifying tale of how Britain’s most secret court imprisoned a grandmother (AKA Court enforces its own orders and publishes judgment for the world to see)

by reporting watch team | Oct 21, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This week Christopher Booker, chose this as his topic for his Sunday Telegraph column :   The terrifying tale of how Britain’s most secret court imprisoned a grandmother   This is of course a very worrying headline. The article itself is also likely to...

Litigants in person – getting court documents well before the hearing begins

by Paul M | Oct 7, 2016 | Cases, Explanation

Conducting your own case as a litigant in person (LiP) is hard enough as it is, without being given a massive bundle of the other side’s documents and law reports at the door of the court, just as the hearing is about to begin. Last week a judge in the High Court...

Former MP John Hemming urges appeals court to look in to case of teenager related to public figure

by Lucy R | Aug 9, 2016 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, Notorious

A story under this headline appeared on the Your Local Guardian site on 8 August : Former MP John Hemming urges appeals court to look in to case of teenager related to public figure. It suggests that ex-MP John Hemming is going to be launching an appeal to the Court...

Ellie Butler – the missing judgment about her sibling

by Lucy R | Jul 29, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, Notorious

We have previously written about the tragic case of Ellie Butler a number of times on this blog : Ellie Butler – drawing together some strands and discussions Ellie Butler – some useful resources Lessons from the Ellie Butler Case Lucy Reed also wrote a...