by Judith Townend | Jun 24, 2021 | Analysis, Transparency News
Can transparency be in the limelight? Perhaps not, in scientific terms (or to avoid metaphor mixing), but court transparency is certainly having a moment. This is partly because of changes to the justice process expedited by COVID-19 and the...
by reporting watch team | Jun 24, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week, the Court of Appeal heard yet another case where a birth parent was trying to get an adoption order set aside. The three children in Re I-A are, unusually but very fortunately, all living together in one adoptive family, following care and placement orders...
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 Doughty | 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 Doughty | 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...
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