by Barbara Rich | Jul 23, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This post originally appeared on Medium and is republished with thanks. It deals with the recent judgment of the Court of Protection in London Borough of Tower Hamlets v NB (consent to sex) [2019] EWCOP 27 and the consequences of sensational commentary on it. The...
by Annie Surviving Safeguarding | Jul 6, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
On the 17th of June 2018, a father made an anxious call to Kent Police after his ex-partner failed to return their child after a period of unsupervised contact which had been agreed by the family court. Very sadly, the following morning, the Police found the bodies of...
by Lucy R | May 23, 2019 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the April issue of Family Law at [2019] Fam Law 437(2). The Transparency Project has a new patron The Transparency Project is very pleased to report that Clifford Bellamy, recently retired Circuit Judge and former...
by Barbara Rich | May 20, 2019 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
At the beginning of April 2019, a Press Association report of an interim hearing at the Court of Protection provoked a number of newspaper headlines and outraged reactions, because it quoted a High Court judge, Mr Justice Hayden, as having spoken of a “fundamental...
by Alice T | Apr 23, 2019 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This blog post originally appeared as an article in the March 2019 issue, Family Law [2019] Fam Law 325, and is in response to Louise Tickle’s February article at [2019] Fam Law 122. ‘Fourth Estate’ is a regular column in Family Law by Louise Tickle,...
by Lucy R | Apr 17, 2019 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Notorious
Since yesterday the news has been full of reports about a Ukrainian ‘Billionaire, Sergiy Tigipko, investigated over abduction of [his] UK grandchildren’ (See the BBC. Also, for example, Businessman reveals fight to bring daughters back to UK after ex-wife...
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