Alfie Evans: Summary and useful links

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...

SERGEI AND YULIA SKRIPAL AND THE COURT OF PROTECTION

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...

Elsie Scully-Hicks – Family Court Judgment Released

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...

Breaking the cycle of mistrust – sometimes less is not more

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...

Fair, accurate and balanced – while being stopped from reporting the facts?

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...

The muslim foster carer case again – what else has emerged?

by reporting watch team | Oct 2, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We have covered the case originally headlined “Christian child forced into foster care” on a number of occasions. Our earlier posts can be found here : Religious and cultural identity in foster care, 28 Aug The most secretive court in all of Christendom…,...