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...
by reporting watch team | Apr 6, 2019 | Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
There has been a lot of coverage of remarks apparently made by Mr Justice Hayden this week about the ‘fundamental human right’ of a man to have sex with his wife. We think that the press coverage and twitter interest emanate from a Press Association (PA)...
by reporting watch team | Feb 25, 2019 | FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We’ve started trying to write something about Shamima Begum and her baby several times this week, but every time we agree what we are going to write, something changes. It feels a bit like shifting sands, and the facts are very unclear. So we aren’t going...
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