by Lucy R | Jun 20, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Four years ago we wrote about news reports of a police investigation into a drug testing lab that had carried out tests for the Family Court : Police investigating drug testing lab that carried out tests for the Family Court The issue was that some of the tests...
by reporting watch team | Jun 11, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
This blog post is about the case of Re A (Domestic Abuse: Incorrect Principles applied) [2021] EWFC B30. First, the context: June 2020: The Ministry of Justice published the ‘Harm Report’, a 200-page document detailing criticisms of the way family courts minimised...
by Julie D | May 26, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Three years ago, eyebrows were raised when Mr Justice Mostyn stated in the case of GM v Carmarthenshire County Council & Anor [2018] EWFC 36 that use of attachment theory by a social worker was not ‘expert’ evidence and that he didn’t need a social worker to...
by Julie D | May 18, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This judgment, Cardiff City Council v A Mother & Ors [2021] EWFC 44, relates to the case that Emily Dugan wrote about in the Sunday Times and that we wrote about here. This judgment appears to be the only one given by HHJ Jonathan Furness that has ever been...
by Julie D | May 16, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
This is the view of the Sunday Times in its editorial today, ‘The Sunday Times view on public transparency: A secrecy fixation shrouds decisions that affect us all’, which features a report by Emily Dugan, ‘Our baby was taken from us for months...
by Julie D | May 13, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
It’s well known that adoption orders made in England and Wales cannot be ‘unmade’. That is partly why they are sometimes described as extreme, draconian or ‘the last resort’ if made against birth parents’ wishes. We have written about this, and the very few...
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