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Shi-Anne Downer – Press Coverage and Serious Case Review

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

The publication of the Serious Case Review in the very sad case of Shi-Anne (Keegan) Downer, murdered at 18 months old by her Special Guardian Kandyce Downer, has prompted a fresh round of press coverage of the circumstances of her death. Kandyce Downer was convicted...

Open letter to the PSA – response from HCPC

by Lucy R | Feb 23, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

Below is the text of an email response received on 16th February from the Health Care and Professional Council (HCPC), to our Open Letter of 10th February 2017 to the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) (we had cc’d the HCPC and the PSA invited them to...
Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

Teresa Kirk and the Court of Protection – the end of an “astonishing story”

by Barbara Rich | Feb 20, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

On 14 February 2017, the Daily Mail reported on developments in a Court of Protection case that it has been following for some time: “an astonishing story that has come to represent all that is wrong with Britain’s shadowy Court of Protection.”  The story is that of...
Transgender v ultra-Orthodox Jewish community?

Transgender v ultra-Orthodox Jewish community?

by reporting watch team | Jan 31, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

The press widely report the decision of Mr Justice Peter Jackson in a very sad and difficult case involving an ultra-orthodox Jewish (Charedi) family, where the father left the community to become a transgender woman, and has not seen her five children since. Mr...
A genius from another planet?

A genius from another planet?

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

The Telegraph reported just before Christmas that : Millionaire seeks greater share in divorce because he is a ‘genius’, prompting court to examine the meaning of the word    The case is one involving a multimillionaire financier who is unhappy with...
Ex-MP says ‘open justice’ rules ‘must be followed to the letter’

Ex-MP says ‘open justice’ rules ‘must be followed to the letter’

by reporting watch team | Dec 29, 2016 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

The Press Association have covered a case concerning the potential committal to prison of a Polish woman involved in care proceedings, it appears for publication of information concerning her child via an interview with Polish media which was aired in Poland and...
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