by Julie Doughty | Feb 5, 2022 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
This judgment, Re R-E (Contact: Support from local authorities in Wales) [2021] EWFC B95 from Pontypridd Family Court, published on BAILII a few days ago, has a number of unusual features. One is the outcome, that direct contact was found not to be in the...
by Jack Harrison | Jan 21, 2022 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
At every level, judges of the family court have to resolve sometimes unimaginable situations – acts in the “never ending carnival of human misery.” The intensity of such cases is nearly always increased where the children involved are very unwell,...
by Judith Townend | Jan 7, 2022 | Analysis, Explanation, Transparency News
What’s the collective noun for browser tabs? I ended my year with a lot – a flock? A bevy? – open, mainly relating to one of my main preoccupations, justice system data (i.e. information generated by the process of justice). I’m somewhat nervously returning to them...
by Lucy R | Jan 2, 2022 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
We saw this headline in The Times just after Christmas. What on earth is it all about? We’ve read and re-read it and to be frank, we’re still not completely sure. The ‘oligarch divorce’ in question is that of Farkhad Akhmedov and his ex wife...
by Julie Doughty | Dec 21, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
On 24 November, the BBC broadcast the story above. The Court of Protection (CoP) judgment, PH & Anor v Brighton And Hove City Council [2021] EWCOP 63, has now been published on BAILII. The full name of the case is: PH and RH v (1) Brighton and Hove City Council...
by Lucy R | Dec 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious, Transparency News
This post originally appeared on the author’s blog Pink Tape and is reposted here with permission (NB, disclosure : the author is the Chair of The Transparency Project). Most of the newspapers carried the story on Saturday: ‘Andrew Griffiths found to have...
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