Samantha Baldwin – another side to a very sad story

by reporting watch team | Apr 10, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We wrote about this case whilst Samantha Baldwin and her boys were still missing. Here : Police hunt for mother who has abducted her own children – what on earth is going on? At the time, we were hampered by a lack of information and restrictions on reporting some of...

Police hunt for mother who has abducted her own children – what on earth is going on?

by reporting watch team | Apr 3, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

[Update 6 April 2017: The BBC report that Samantha Baldwin and the children have been found safely. There is no further information available at present and we now expect things to go quiet in terms of information coming from the police / Family Court, at least for a...

Unreasonable behaviour, unreasonable judges or unreasonable law?

by reporting watch team | Mar 25, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Actually, the first of those is a misnomer – as we explored in an earlier post the law on divorce in England & Wales requires behaviour (maybe unreasonable, maybe not) on the one part of a spouse that means it is unreasonable to now expect the other to...

Mrs Norman and the indigestible cherry

by reporting watch team | Mar 5, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Update : the main judgment in the case of Norman has now been published. You can read it here : Norman v Norman [2017] EWCA Civ 120 (03 March 2017) We’ve previously written about this case when it was covered in the press, and when an earlier judgment was released in...

Guilty until proven innocent? — Lecture by Professor Jo Delahunty QC

by Paul M | Mar 4, 2017 | Comment, Explanation, Notorious

Giving the second of a series of lectures at Gresham College on the difference between crime and family law proceedings, Jo Delahunty QC spoke about the use of expert medical evidence in cases concerning the death or serious injury of a child. She explored, by way of...

Co-Sleeping Correction Requests – Update

by Lucy R | Feb 25, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We made correction requests to three national newspapers regarding their coverage of a care case which involved (but was not about) co-sleeping. We have now received a response from all 3 of the newspapers involved. The results are below. You can read the original...