by reporting watch team | Jul 30, 2017 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The Independent Press Standards Organisation have recently published the “Resolution Statement” in respect of our complaint about an article by The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker regarding Court of Protection proceedings concerning the now deceased...
by Barbara Rich | Jul 23, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder was on Radio 3 as I drove across London a week or so ago. It’s music I’ve always found nearly unbearable to listen to, because it’s about the death of children. The poems Mahler set to music were written by the 19th century German poet...
by reporting watch team | Jul 18, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We’ve written about Charlie’s case before. This is an update, focusing mainly on recent developments, and recent press coverage and social media comment on the case, much of which has been misleading or poorly informed. The current situation There was a...
by Allan Norman | Jul 5, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
As is now well-known, Charlie Gard’s case reached the end of its legal road last week, when the European Court of Human Rights decided that his case, and the case brought on his behalf by his parents, was inadmissible. At the same time, it decided that the...
by reporting watch team | Jul 2, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We last wrote about the case of Charlie Gard when the European Court was still considering Charlie’s parents’ application. Since then the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have rejected the application as inadmissible (decision here), meaning that the...
by reporting watch team | Jun 29, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
In the judgment from a case called H (Children : exclusion of Mckenzie friend) [2017] EWFC B31 (05 March 2017), Her Honour Judge Atkinson sets out in detail, why permission to appeal an order banning a paid McKenzie friend from “helping” a mother involved...
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