by Polly Morgan | May 18, 2018 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
By now, we all know the terrible story of Alfie Evans, who spent 16 months of his two years of life in hospital as his brain turned to water and cerebral spinal fluid and who died following the removal of life sustaining ventilation. I say ‘we all know’, but the...
by Sarah P | Apr 29, 2018 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This photograph is from an article in Wired ‘How Facebooks Fake News fix made the Alfie Evans story go viral’ The sad case of Alfie Evans has attracted world wide attention in the last few days. There is a useful summary of the last year on the BBC...
by Barbara Rich | Apr 5, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Notorious
What are a person’s best interests in a decision to permit use of samples of body fluids or tissue for a purpose which is neither of direct therapeutic benefit to the person him or herself, or an act of direct altruism towards another person? The law of mental...
by reporting watch team | Nov 20, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Mr Justice Moor has today published his judgment about the death of Elsie (known to her biological family as Shayla). You can read the judgment here: The County Council of the City and County of Cardiff -v- Matthew Scully-Hicks and Others. The judgment was written in...
by reporting watch team | Nov 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Joanna Nicolas wrote recently that Details of care cases are concealed for good reason. The press must respect that (The Guardian, 1 Nov 2017). In her article she said that I believe few journalists write about children’s social care with integrity; few are interested...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 9, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The Muslim foster care case first reported in The Times has prompted harsh criticism of the choices made by journalists when investigating complaints about poor social work practice. I make no comment on the writing, front page positioning, headline or the intentions...
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