by reporting watch team | Nov 11, 2016 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Project
Earlier in 2016, The Transparency Project, along with the Association of Lawyers for Children and others, were invited by His Honour Judge Bellamy (Designated Family Judge for Leicester) to make written submissions to the Family Court regarding the question of covert...
by reporting watch team | Nov 7, 2016 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
There has been coverage in The Times and The Telegraph this week about a husband and wife who wish to adopt their foster children but have been told they can’t, because of their views about gay adoption. We thought it would be useful to give a brief explanation...
by Paul M | Nov 2, 2016 | Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In a judgment handed down today, Re X (No 3) [2016] EWHC 2755 (Fam) the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, decided to continue, despite the withdrawal of the birth parents concerned, a full re-hearing of the original allegations made in care...
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...
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...
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...
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