by Lucy R | Apr 3, 2015 | Cases, Explanation
This case about a financial claim on divorce hit the mainstream media recently (see for example The Telegraph here. The case involved a millionaire divorcee Barry Stocker. At first blush it seems surprising that either one of a wealthy couple should be “left too...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 8, 2015 | Cases
This is an updated version of the original post last week which disappeared during a period of site maintenance. We were rather surprised by this story in the Daily Mail last week which consisted of a perfectly reasonable selection of quotations from a Court of Appeal...
by Lucy R | Jan 24, 2015 | Cases, Explanation
Lucy Reed has blogged about a recent case where a person committed to prison for contempt of court was initially anonymous due to a reporting restriction order made by a Family Division Judge. The order has now been varied. You can read Lucy’s blog post on Pink...
by Paul M | Jan 15, 2015 | Cases, Comment, Explanation
There is an assumption in some parts of the media that the Family Courts are deliberately operating in a secretive manner in order to cover up the sinister conduct of social workers, doctors, and local authorities, and that is why hearings are held in private (ie in...
by Lucy R | Jan 7, 2015 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Project
As its very new, we’re still feeling our way through how we will run this project – and we have recently had to deal with the thorny issue of what the limits are on comments about individual cases. We have an “Editorial Policy” here, which sets...
by David Burrows | Dec 20, 2014 | Analysis, Comment
Amongst family judges it has become quite the rage to open up your court and welcome in – well, probably a few lonely souls and a couple of local journalists, limited to those cases where a parent has been sounding off on Facebook or trying to take a child from...
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