by Julie Doughty | May 12, 2023 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
This is a troubling story about three children subject to care applications by the Vale of Glamorgan Council; the final hearing took place last month and I attended Cardiff Family Court under the Reporting Pilot as a legal blogger. There are far too many (more than...
by reporting watch team | Apr 18, 2023 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
With the progress gradually being made toward more openness in family court proceedings, there’s increasing discussion about who should and who should not be named and identified in judgments and reports. Although there is consensus (and law) that children...
by Julie Doughty | Apr 10, 2023 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
There are two matters of interest in this unusual judgment by Mr Justice Mostyn in respect of a claim for judicial review brought by a teenager against a local authority, originally published on The National Archives as TT v Essex County Council [2023] EWHC 721 (Fam)...
by Lucy R | Mar 21, 2023 | Cases, Comment, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot
On 2 February 2023, I attended the Family Court in Cardiff, aiming to report on cases under the newly launched Reporting Pilot. I identified one case on the court list which I was able both to attend and report. It turned out to be a hearing in the FDAC – the Family...
by Malvika Jaganmohan | Mar 12, 2023 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last month, there was a fair bit of media interest around a High Court battle before Mrs Justice Knowles involving a senior social worker who had been found by the family court to have perpetrated domestic abuse towards his ex-partner. HHJ Ahmed, the judge...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 5, 2023 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This is an update on a case I wrote about in September last year – ‘Choosing the course which is less stressful to the child’. The hearing before Mrs Justive Lieven last summer concerned applications for care orders by Warwickshire County Council in...
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