by Alice T | Dec 5, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Media stories this week of an adoption breakdown, from the perspective of an adoptive mother who felt she had no option but to ask for her older child (15) to return to care, have provoked lots of comment, some of it scathing. We’ve gathered the reports and broadcasts...
by reporting watch team | Nov 24, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
‘What?’ I hear you ask, your face crunched up as you read the title of this post. Yes, you read it correctly. On 24 November 2021, approximately 3 years after the publication of detailed anonymisation guidance warning against the publication of overly...
by Guest Post | Nov 16, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is a guest post from Sir James Munby. Sir James is the previous President of the Family Division. Hard on the heels of the CONSULTATION ON A PROPOSAL FOR A STANDARD REPORTING PERMISSION ORDER IN FINANCIAL REMEDY PROCEEDINGS published by Mostyn J and HHJ Hess, the...
by reporting watch team | Nov 13, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We tweeted about this case in Croydon Family Court, having read this local media report on it, ‘Mother wins Croydon court fight over psychologist’ published on 18 October. The article says that a mother in family court proceedings had objected to the appointment...
by Guest Post | Oct 20, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
This post is by Delia Minoprio. We asked Delia to look at a news article we saw in the Liverpool Echo, and to consider it alongside the judgment in the case it related to. Let me start with a confession: I’m a family law barrister and I feel a little embarrassed by it...
by Lucy R | Oct 17, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch
Parental alienation (PA) is a controversial subject on which there are widely polarised views, making it difficult to write about in a way that doesn’t attract criticism from some quarter. There were a batch of PA judgments (all about the same family) published...
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