by Guest Post | Apr 21, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is a guest post by Lottie Park-Morton, Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Gloucestershire, who is currently undertaking a PhD on surrogacy and children’s...
by Guest Post | Apr 20, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a guest post from Iain Large. Iain is a barrister at St John’s Chambers and tweets as @ijmlarge. In this article Iain looks at two recent lower-value judgments in financial remedies cases on divorce, examples of the sorts of decisions taken on a daily...
by Alice T | Apr 16, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family court cases, explain and comment on published family court judgments and highlight other transparency news MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT MATTERS The Mail, Guardian and others-...
by Julie Doughty | Apr 15, 2022 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE: 18.12.23: Analysis of developments in the case, which cast a whole new light on the facts and issues, is now published here – What happened to the Ks? UPDATE: 25.11.23: A fact finding hearing and a welfare hearing have now been held, and we’ll be...
by Lucy R | Apr 14, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News
The case of Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30 has hit the headlines because of the eye watering legal costs, and the excoriating judicial criticism of the parties for running them up. But Xanthopoulos is not only interesting because of its extraordinary financial...
by Paul M | Apr 10, 2022 | Analysis, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Andrew Griffiths, the disgraced former MP who was found by a family court to have raped and abused his wife, wanted his case to remain as secret as possible. No names, no bad publicity. But his own barrister has now been forced to apologise to the court for breaching...
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